On Wednesday, Wisynco Foods Limited, the franchise holder for Domino's in Jamaica, opened its 12th pizza store and first for downtown Kingston.The store, which employs 15, is being used...
Ten years after Magna Rewards introduced loyalty cards to the Jamaican market, the industry has started to change - though not enough to have any real effect on the regional company.With 500,000 active customers and more...
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is relying on the private sector to give life to the planned makeover of the Kingston waterfront as commercial and recreational space.However, it is moving ahead with similar plans...
Have you ever wondered why it often takes so long to get a simple refund? The reason is sometimes simple: the organisation's process is broken and it needs to be re-engineered.While the term 're-engineering' has lost the cachet it once had, many local...
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting has said the indictment of Oneike Mickhale Barnett, a Jamaican national, by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a result of the joint efforts between the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force (MOCA) and US law-enforcement agencies.
Strategic vice-presidency - Frederick Williams, former vice-president, business analytics and strategy at Scotia Group Jamaica, was transferred on July 22, to Scotia Insurance Caribbean Limited in Barbados, where he assumes the position of chief financial...
Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB) will be offering two sets of preference shares to investors come next week in search of fresh capital to expand in markets where the group currently operates.The offers, which open on August 21 and closes August 30,...
Overwhelmed by thieves and diseases, citrus farmers are cutting their losses and abandoning oranges for sugar cane.Orchards are being squeezed by praedial thieves, as well as the citrus greening disease which has...
Heston Hutton, managing director for Centralised Strategic Services Limited (CSS), said Thursday that its credit union parent will look next at offering remittances in the suite of services to be rolled out under...
LP Azar Limited has acquired auctioneer and real-estate brokerage CD Alexander Realty Limited, a near-60-year-old firm which it is reorganising and rebranding to reflect a younger persona with a modern edge...
The Jamaica National financial services group has renewed its quest to become the nation's eighth commercial bank with the planned resub-mission of its application.The building society, which marked its 139th anniversary on...
Seprod Limited has reported a fall in quarterly profit despite increased revenues linked to price increases as well as an uptick in sales.The company, which distributes brands such as Serge, Miracle, Butterkist and Swizzle, saw revenues of J$3.6 billion...
New figures released Wednesday show that the longest-ever recession to afflict the Eurozone came to an end in the second quarter of the year.Eurostat, the European Union's (EU) statistics office, said the 17 EU...
The fervour of anti-colonialism and nationalism of the immediate post-Independence Commonwealth Caribbean included focus on how these societies were organised, who benefited from favoured economic policies of an earlier era, the critical role newly...
In June, Red Bull held its executive marketing retreat at the very upmarket Trident hotel in Portland. Various companies and organisations, I imagine, do their business retreats at various Jamaican hotel properties...
Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), which facilitates business through loans and equity financing as well as technical assistance, is projecting lower revenue intake this year, but suggests that loan volumes might still increase as a result of falling...
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) wants to synchronise the rules relating to start-up capital for home-grown and foreign-owned banks under reforms that also aim to concretise the central bank's supremacy over its own...
The Barbados government says it will no longer pay tuition fees for nationals studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI).Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Chris Sinckler in his 2013/14 budget presentation on Tuesday, said that effective...
Three years after the Tucker's Town resort was placed in receivership, legislators have approved a deal that will see the Pink Beach Club sold and restored as a luxury hotel by 2015.Sweeping concessions have been offered for the US$12.5-million sale...
The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), in its revised approach to the divestment of government property, is targeting some J$3 billion of new deals from public-private partnerships (PPPs) this fiscal year and more than triple that within a five-year...
