News Corp. says that the insurers backing its board of directors will pay the company $139 million to settle shareholder lawsuits over the British phone hacking scandal
First Global Bank, a subsidiary of the GraceKennedy Group, is the recipient of awards for Best Online Banking Platform Jamaica 2013, and the Best Banking Customer Service Provider Jamaica 2013.
Nescafé, the world's leading coffee brand with presence in more than 180 countries, is this year celebrating its 75th anniversary. Varieties of the world's first instant coffee are offered in different regions in the world based on local tastes and preferences...
APRIL 21 National Insurance Scheme 47th anniversary service, at King's Chapel United Pentecostal Church, 10 Albion Road, Montego Bay, 10 am.mlssprunit@gmail.com APRIL 22 Launch of Samsung Galaxy S4, at the Devonshire, Devon House, 26 Hope Road,...
I recently stumbled upon an article in 'The Sunday Gleaner' about how to acquire a loan through the NHT and decided to write to you. You see, I am in the same position of thinking to get a house of my own by age 30, and I want to get a loan from the NHT whether it be to build or buy, whichever option is available to me or would be the more affordable choice, so to speak.
Jamaica's Tryall Club & Villas and Guyana's Karanambu Lodge Inc were among the big winners of the TravelMole 2013 sustainable tourism awards handed out by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).
Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips presented what will become the first Budget of Jamaica's next 50 years, and it seems to be a step in the right direction. He presented a budget that seeks to balance austerity measures with a growth agenda that, if executed well, offers hope.
The decision turned out to have a stabilising effect on revenue for the money services firm. Prime Trust Financial Service's directors saw bill payment as a natural fit alongside the company's cambio and remittance operations, and a sure-fire way to grow income streams. And it worked.
The extra funding for the Student's Loan Bureau (SLB) to be drawn from education tax collections will be sufficient to close the gap needed for an expected 20,000 loan applications for the next school year, the student lender has said.
Toilet paper was one of the most topical issues across Jamaica last week, dominating the news, talk shows and discussion programmes, for all the wrong reasons.
Has the time come to give greater consideration to the opportunity presented by what might be described as the space in-between: the millions of square miles of ocean and seabed that lie between the islands and countries of the Caribbean?
Appliance Traders Limited has created a new division in the company as it steps up plans to corner a larger market share in the alternative energy sector in which just 25 discrete companies operate.
Less than a decade ago, Colombia was on the verge of collapse. A civil war that was going on to its fifth decade had descended into the crudest form of barbarism. Indiscriminate bombings terrorised the population...
Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers: The Story of Success' provides a convenient starting point to discuss interactions among status by ascription - read colour in Jamaica - inequality, corruption, anaemic rates of return on capital and arrested economic...
National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica has closed its Newport West branch in continuation of its programme to consolidate the network.Newport West ceased operating at the end of March...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the US Federal Reserve and other central banks to closely monitor their extraordinary efforts to jump-start economic growth, warning that the policies could inflate asset bubbles and destabilise financial...
Thought you should know ... A flood of cash in the foreign-exchange market since April 2 has kept the Jamaican dollar trading below the psychological J$100 mark.
