Stories by Avia Collinder

Gusland McCook, acting director general of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), has confirmed that business consultant Dennis Boothe has been appointed chairman of the board of JACRA.JACRA's first chairman, Richard...

The central bank's authorised capital is to be increased to $28 billion based on the revision to the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Act. Of that amount, $22.6 billion is expected to be paid up based...

David Noel, who heads Scotiabank's Jamaican operations and has oversight of the international bank's Caribbean North and Central region, says the current move to jettison nine regional markets is unlikely to be replicated elsewhere in the region....

The Airbnb community in Jamaica featured 3,700 active hosts on the company's platform, according to Leila Suwwan of the Airbnb Latin America unit.That's 600 more than the numbers in December when the platform registered 3,100 active hosts and 5,900...

Roderick 'Ricky' Francis, son of the late Roderick 'Bunny' Francis, says he intends to execute the dream project conceived by his father, a multibillion-dollar complex called The Spires to be developed on the Kingston waterfront.Bunny Francis was...

Conch sales were disappointing for B&D Trawling in the past season, but CEO Roderick Francis expects to make up some of the lost ground from sea cucumbers and live lobsters as alternative sources of revenue...

Investors Haresh Shivnani and Haresh Daswani of H & H Ventures Limited are putting US$5.7 million ($775 million) into the development of a two-acre property at Reading, on the outskirts of Montego Bay....

Arising from the increase in user fees in public-health facilities on August 1 for individuals who have health insurance, local insurance providers say that they expect the annual payout to local hospitals to increase.Already, these charges have...

Telecommunications company Digicel Group and partners are expected to announce the launch of a mobile money app this month that is usable internationally, more than a year after the product...

National Commercial Bank Jamaica, NCB, has rolled out a second loan product on its digital platform, this time a pay advance loan that has no interest charge attached but comes with a monthly flat fee and is repayable in a month.The bank said on...

The filing of returns for NIS contributions has been a chronic problem over the years among some employers, and even government bodies, but now the state pension agency is trying another tactic to drive compliance. The parent ministry of the...

National Housing Trust, NHT, has released new information on the gender, income and age of buyers which shows that more Jamaicans aged 30 years and below are securing mortgages and that women are buying more homes than men, in general.The data...