As March 15 looms, self-employed professionals are busy engaging accountants to complete their tax returns to meet the statutory deadline. These accountants will undoub-tedly be combing through the various expenses of these professionals to maximise the tax allowance.
The GraceKennedy group has spent $120 million on outfitting a new home for its financial and insurance subsidiaries in Montego Bay, whose operations have now shifted to the Fairview complex from downtown the city.
Kevin Richards is a name familiar in finance and investment circles, but he has chosen to leave the comfort of his desk as an employee, and the profession at which he has excelled, to launch his own business as home-improvement specialist.
QUESTION: Are wills made in Canada valid in Jamaica? And, can property be divided in a will? for example, if a property has a house and an open land and the owner wishes to leave the house for one child and the open land for another - can this be done?
Faced with an exorbitant monthly electricity bill, the Portland Parish Council will, in another week, terminate electricity at the Musgrave Market in Port Antonio.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester:James Robertson, minister of energy and mining, will, on Wednesday, break ground for the US$49-million Wigton Wind Farm expansion project in Manchester.The project will include the...
Blue Power Limited is reporting an uptick in sales overseas for its proprietory soap products, even as Managing Director Dhiru Tanna hunts for cash to position the company to sell more products abroad.Tanna is getting ready...
Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited (JMMB) last year opted not to increase salaries in a period of restructuring and cost containment, but weeks to the close of its financial year has decided to reward workers with a distribution of 23 million units...
Jones resigns D&G seat - Andrew Jones, a Diageo veteran for 23 years, has demitted his seat on the board of Desnoes & Geddes Limited, which trades as Red Stripe, to take up a new assignment outside Jamaica...
Google has a 'translation engine' that does a pretty good job.The idea came about in 2004 when one of its founders used a translation tool acquired by licence to read a letter, fan mail really, from a South Korean.
Insurance ratings agency AM Best has frowned on the acquisition deal for Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Limited, suggesting it could have a potentially negative effect for the buyer.
Starting this week, the Financial Gleaner publishes the submission by former chairman of the Eagle Group of Companies, Dr Paul Chen-Young, presented to the FINSAC enquiry in the form of a book.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is pushing for the listing of the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) bonds on the stock market, the first for domestic debt instruments, if the Government agrees.Indications are that the plan may not be too much of a hard sell...
Greece's profligacy, clandestinely assisted by Wall Street's Houdini-like amoral derivers of derivatives, succeeded in creating waning confidence in the euro, which fell from US$1.51 in December to a low of US$1.361 this...
A negligence lawsuit in which Jamaican snack maker Fun Snax Limited was seeking to recover $107.3 million from Shell Company (WI) Limited for allegedly supplying the incorrect liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been thrown...
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú, owner of América Móvil and Claro, has overtaken Bill Gates and is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person...
Government yesterday unveiled its economic support programme, which is being put in place to ease the hardships of the more than 3,600 workers made redundant after the divestment of two sugar factories.Under the programme, each person will get financial...
China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise. Exports were up 45.7 per cent over a year earlier, the Chinese customs agency reported on Wednesday...
It's the end of the workday (4:30 for some, 5:00 for others) and you're wondering where the day went. In between all the phone calls and meetings, you just haven't accomplished your list of things to do for the day. For other persons though, this inability...
Norma's, an upscale restaurant run by noted chef Norma Shirley, is expanding to Montego Bay, marking to a return to the resort where the eatery operated at Whitehall in Reading.The new operation, however, will have a different home off the MoBay 'Hip...
Appliance Traders Limited (ATL), a trader of electronics and appliances, is searching for new operating space for two outlets, and has already rebranded one store as ATL Elite in an apparent shift upmarket. The Elite store, shortly after opening late...
A comprehensive appraisal of the state of implementation of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) has found that all five core regimes - movement of goods, movement of skills, the right of capital and the provision of services - are functioning....
The new-born litter of 10 piglets and mother, 'Sandy'.Raising pigs a rewarding professionChristopher SerjuGleaner writerSOMERSET, St Thomas:THE COLD night wind coming off the river was giving Marsha Graham a hard time as she struggled to keep warm, but...
Farmers lament glut on marketJermaine FrancisGleaner WriterDENBIGH KRAAL, Clarendon:AT THE height of the midday sun, Denroy Henry is busy reaping his one acre of tomatoes, but according to him, he is only doing it for the love of farming and not for...
