The National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) has launched a mortgage product offered at a new low price of 9.5 per cent. It comes with an introductory cashback incentive of J$200,000 if mortgage applications reach the bank by...
Global chain Payless ShoeSource has credited Jamaica with aiding its international sales growth despite the group posting a US$164 million net loss in its financial year....
Rohan Barnett was initially listed as a shareholder of BCW Holdings in December and a co-equal partner with Gerald Wight and Gerald Chambers with a subscription of 400 ordinary shares each, company documents show.But the record was later amended...
Minister of Finance, Planning and the Public Service Dr Peter Phillips has granted approval for the first licence to be issued for the establishment of a credit bureau in Jamaica....
Ken Tomlinson, liquidator for the Neville Blythe- owned subsidiary UGI Finance and Investment Limited, has filed a lawsuit against Dalma James for failing to hand over documents which he said have stalled efforts to wind...
Hard-hitting batsman Kieron Pollard warm up for the upcoming five-match One-Day Home Series against Australia when the hammered a magnificent 155 in a practice game at the 3Ws Oval in Barbados yesterd
The Automobile Dealers Association (ADA) is proposing that the government consider rolling back the age limit for motor cars being imported to three years old and light commercial vehicles to four years...
SOME 13 scientists drawn from the University of the West Indies, Scientific Research Council and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will today complete a shoot tip grafting training course conducted by Dr Olga Mas Camacho from Cuba.
RATS ARE very intelligent animals that are naturally suspicious of new additions to their environment. It's best to lure rats into the bait stations by pre-baiting with non-poisonous or normal foods such as peanut butter, sweets, rice, meat, etc.
MANY PERSONS venture into farming for different reasons. Some do so to earn a living in order to provide for their families; some because they like to watch things grow, while others do so because they see it as a profit-making activity....
THE COFFEE Industry Board (CIB) is stepping up its fight against berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) infestation with the help of a fungus (Beauveria bassiana), a natural enemy of the borer. It has undertaken a pilot project to determine the efficiency of the fungus ...
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has criticised moves by some United States legislators to block financial aid to the island after claiming that seizure and confiscation of the Allen Stanford empire in Antigua runs contrary to American interest.
WESTERN BUREAU:The powerful ICT sector in Jamaica makes a strong unspoken statement - "It's a man's world" - but the game changer poised to transform the industry is a Jamaican woman...
Antigua's prime minister has pledged to work with other agencies to try to help recover money that victims across the globe lost to convicted Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford
In early December, the name Rohan Barnett appeared on Companies Office documentation as a director of a new start-up securities company, BCW Holdings Limited, which will trade as BCW Capital if it gets the nod from the Financial...
The assets of Carib Metal Successors Limited have been advertised for sale and the quarter-century-old kitchenware maker is being liquidated, but its managing director is insisting that the business can re-emerge...
The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua hotel in Hawaii, a luxury ski resort in the Rockies and a Manhattan boutique hotel are among the last holdings of Lehman Brothers, the investment house whose spectacular bust triggered the worst of the 2008 financial crisis....
Gabe Designers & Contractors says it will oversee the construction of a US$27-million (J$2.4b) residential development overlooking Negril on behalf of Hanover West Development, a local developer with British...
