If you are currently unemployed, perhaps you will have to prepare yourself to be retrained in order to put food on your table and to protect your savings. Minister of Labour Pearnel Charles has stated that Jamaica continues to experience...
Bermuda's oldest bank, NT Butterfield, said on Tuesday that it was in talks with institutional investors to raise a 'significant' amount of new capital shortly after the Bermuda Stock Exchange suspended trading of its common shares...
Bank of Canada leaves key rate unchanged - Canada's central bank is holding its key interest rate at a record-low 0.25 per cent and is reaffirming that it expects it will keep the rate there until the middle of this year...
Just months after going public and listing on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, Access Financial Services Limited, a relatively small loans and cambio business, is about to ask holders of its more than 27 million shares...
Kingston Properties Limited (KPREIT), Jamaica's only real estate invest ment trust, said it has entered into a binding agreement to purchase commercial property on Hagley Park Road in Kingston."It is a warehouse/office building currently being used...
About 160,000 customers of light and power provider, Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, will this month start seeing even higher light bills as the company starts to levy the 10 per cent special general consumption tax (GCT) charge the Government...
Takes over Mitsubishi, Benz dealerships - Stewart's Automotive Group Limited has acquired the operations of Issa Transport Group (ITG) and will take possession of the Camp Road-based business on March 12.The transaction mark's ITG's exit from the transport...
Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited (SLJ) has sold off its general insurance business in Cayman Islands to Bahamas First Holdings Limited but is awaiting regulatory approval for final closure of the deal, three years after it...
The book addresses some deficiencies in our heritage such as providing a foundation for a biography on the Right Excellent Paul Bogle, national hero...
WITH EFFORTS towards the Rotary Race to Literacy Book Drive well under way, deadlines to raise money loom.Launched in early February, the Rotary Race to Literacy unites all the Rotary clubs in Jamaica in an effort to improve literacy rates across...
Chairman and chief executive officer of Kingston Wharves Limited (kwL), Grantley Stephenson, has clarified details pertaining to last Friday's launch of a new Caribbean shipping hub at the port of Kingston facility for Hsegh Autoliners, as reported in the February 26 issue of sister publication, the Financial Gleaner .
On July 12, 2009, I was driving from Kingston to Montego Bay. Five other employees of an NGO and I were travelling. While descending a hill in the pouring rain at about 30 kilometres per hour going towards Rio Bueno, the vehicle skidded while negotiating a corner.
Directors of listed company Ciboney Group Limited say they are now awaiting legal advice on whether the firm can be separated as a legal entity from its sole asset - the 16-acre beachfront Westmoreland property it has been trying to sell for two years now - to facilitate the possible sale of its trading name, which is believed to be attractive to investors because of its Jamaica Stock Exchange listing.
I am 21 years old and I want to start the process of getting my own home. I have other goals that I want to accomplish but I want this to be my first. I am planning on taking this process through the National Housing Trust (NHT).
Adrian Stokes and Jason Morris, senior strategists at Jamaica Money Market Brokers are not moving to Victoria Mutual Wealth Management Limited after all.
While for many persons owning a small business is a dream come true, complete with the prospects of working shorter hours and having a lot of money, this fantasy is often far from the reality of running one's own business.
There is evidence that in the early days of the January 12 earthquake disaster in Haiti, planners of a project to build an air-cargo trans-shipment hub at Vernamfield in Clarendon, slated to cost US$1 billion or J$89.7 billion, had pegged hopes of sourcing international and local funding to kick-start the build-out of the facility to the catastrophe in the populous Caribbean state.
Dr Paul Chen-Young claims it is a "cardinal rule that a columnist should disclose any conflict of interest when writing about a subject in which there has been personal involvement".
Minority operators on the Port of Kingston, the listed Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL), will be looking to today's start-up here in Jamaica of the new Caribbean hub operations...
THE GOVERNMENT this week continued to receive a backlash from pensioners and pension fund trustees over the absence of any protective mechanism to cushion the income fallout this segment of the investing public will suffer from the Jamaica Debt...
Much has been written in recent weeks about the current negotiations between the Government of Jamaica, Air Jamaica and Caribbean Airlines for the provision of airlift from Jamaica to five destinations in the United States and Canada by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL)....
THE JUNIOR Stock Exchange, created last year as a vehicle to raise capital for small Jamaican firms, is to haveits second listing, with Blue Power, a lumber operation and soap-manufacturing business, set to enter...
WE NOTE an article captioned 'Sugar workers housing dilemma', published in the Business section of your newspaper on February 24. Apart from its sensational appeal, the article was inaccurate in parts...
Continuing to post good profits in the first quarter of its 2009-2010 financial year, which runs from November to October 31, banking group Scotiabank this week made it clear that return on equity for shareholders will be its performance focus for this...
Aubyn Hill has known banking and management all his life. Now Hill, a turnaround artist of sorts for bad businesses around the globe, even while applying his professional passion to a few choice ventures of his own...
