Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2015 | 11:59 AMSteven Jackson
Sangster International Airport (MBJ), the island's busiest, should receive roughly 1.85 million passengers during the winter season, or about 5.9 per cent higher than the previous year, due in part to increased flight connectivity, according to...
Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2015 | 12:41 PMSteven Jackson
The financial system in Jamaica lags that of its neighbours with spreads three times higher than more efficient Caribbean markets, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a sector analysis on its 10th review of the economic support...
Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMSteven Jackson
Utility provider Jamaica Public Service (JPS) will offer prepaid service in all parishes next year, but expects power consumption to dip slightly in the process....
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMSteven Jackson
Managed information technology services firm tTech Limited raised $50.2 million in one minute in its initial public offering (IPO), the first for a company of its nature on the junior market of the Jamaica Stock...
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMSteven Jackson
The Government and private-sector employers need to make pay data more transparent in order to get women on par with their male counterparts, according...
Published:Thursday | December 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMSteven Jackson
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) said it received no bids from potential investors for the purchase of Seaside at Rose Hall, a 23-acre beachfront property in St James for which...
Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 11:59 AMSteven Jackson
Large hardware supplier, Arc Systems Limited, will bid to acquire the Government of Jamaica's nearly 43 per cent stake in KIW Limited, which operates a warehouse on Spanish Town Road in Kingston.The disposal is part of the ongoing programme of...
Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 11:45 AMSteven Jackson
Jamaica coffee prices are at an all-time high, yet the industry's earnings are at an all-time low.This apparent contradiction led the IFC, the financing arm of the World Bank, to embark on a technical support project worth over US$560,000 ($67...
Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 8:50 PMSteven Jackson
MBJ Airport Limited, which operates the Sangster International Airport, expects to receive a bump in arrivals this winter season, based on a new route from United States carrier American Airlines, which will open up arrivals from as far as Asia....
Published:Friday | December 4, 2015 | 1:29 PMSteven Jackson
Women in Jamaica earn 60 per cent of their male counterparts' pay, which, alongside other disparities, has contributed to the country's fall in the rankings to 65 in the Global Gender Gap Report 2015.For every $100 made by a man in Jamaica, a woman...
Published:Thursday | December 3, 2015 | 11:34 AMSteven Jackson
Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) claims that switching all its low-consuming users to prepaid meters would increase the risk profile of the utility provider, and secondly, cost it hundreds of millions in lost non-fuel revenue annually - an...
Published:Monday | November 30, 2015 | 9:33 PMSteven Jackson
Marley Coffee shares are recovering from a mid-November dip amid charges laid by United States authorities against its former Chief Executive Officer Shane Whittle.Marley Coffee is listed as Jammin Java and operates under the chairmanship of Rohan...
Published:Tuesday | December 1, 2015 | 12:52 PMSteven Jackson
Scotiabank Jamaica increased fees on key customer accounts, effective December 1, in a move which, on the surface, seeks to increase ebbing revenues at the financial conglomerate.Eleven accounts saw changes in either monthly fees, non-chargeable...
Published:Tuesday | December 1, 2015 | 2:00 PMSteven Jackson
Netherlands-based Trafigura Beheer Limited won six spot order agreements to supply billions of dollars in fuel to Petrojam for the first half of 2015 or twice the number in 2014, which appears to mark a heightened re-engagement with Jamaica,...
