Alysia White (left), assistant vice president, Sagicor Group Marketing, addresses editors and reporters at Jamaica Observer's Monday Exchange forum at the newspaper's Beechwood Avenue offices yesterday. Also in photo are Christopher Zacca, president and CEO, Sagicor Group Jamaica and international supermodel Stacey McKenzie, Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run patron. (Photo: Joseph
St Andrade Sinclair (third right), CEO of May Pen Hospital, one of the beneficiaries of this year's Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, addressing yesterday's Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange. Flanking him are (from left) Stacey McKenzie, Jamaican/Canadian fashion model and runway coach, a patron of the event; Christopher Zacca, president and CEO,
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 Pandohie, resigned soon after taking the position last year. McCook said that a new board has been
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Several countries in the region were rocked by a magnitude 3.4 earthquake early Sunday. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that at 7:29am (local time) the tremor affected the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Martin, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Kitts Nevis,
Question: I am in bad debt on two angles. I have an outstanding credit card debt, and I also have a bad debt, with a company in the micro finance sector. The latter was a loan I stupidly took for my boyfriend at the time, and he has made no
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says exports from Latin America and the Caribbean, including Jamaica, hit their highest level in six years as a result of a 9.9 per cent increase in 2018, albeit amid growing downside risks in the future. A new IDB report noted that the region
Exports of Jamaica increased 17.6 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2018, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report which said that sales from Latin America and the Caribbean to overseas markets were the highest in six years. The stronger expansion for Jamaica was due to increased
Construction of the offshore gas pipeline for JAMALCO's $24 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant has been completed. This was disclosed by managing director Austin Mooney during a tour of JAMALCO’s mines and refinery operations in Halse Hall, Clarendon on Thursday. Mooney, who said the project was on track
The Government of Jamaica has announced that it will take legislative action for ownership of the 49 per cent share in the local oil refinery, PetroJam, held by Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company, PDV Caribe. Speaking at a press conference yesterday Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US Journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
