Jamaica, particularly the Corporate Area, has been experiencing a boom in property development over the past couple years. With increasingly competitive mortgage rates available through financial institutions and more people looking to own rather than rent, conversations around what make a 'good' buy have become more prevalent. 876 Listings reached
Cancer survivors Nioca Irving Simpson (second left), Ann-Marie Gordon (centre) and Norma Reid (second right), are all smiles during a Pre-Mother’s Day brunch held in their honour at the Alambra Inn, recently by the Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI). With them are ICWI Road Angel policy holders Shullian
Jamaica’s largest banking conglomerate NCB Financial Group has finalised the acquisition of an additional 74.23 million shares in Guardian Holdings Limited, which doubles its ownership of the regional insurance group to 62 per cent at a cost of US$207 million ($28 billion). The deal was finalised with the payment for
Published:Monday | May 13, 2019 | 12:10 AM The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is now home to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenator machine (ECMO), the only one of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, donated by the Guardian Group Foundation, from funds raised from the 2018 staging of
President of Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards, says the country is moving in the right direction and is on a trajectory to achieving its Vision 2030 target of “being a place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business”. Edwards was speaking at the Jamaica Employers’ Federation’s
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says small-scale Jamaican property owners who provide hospitality services in the country’s tourism sector will not be required to pay a tax for their properties, as has been the case for players in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). He says Jamaica is currently in
GraceKennedy Limited and Musson Jamaica, two of Jamaica’s largest conglomerates in control of multiple companies, will initially look to their own networks for business to feed the new life insurance company on which they have teamed up. Insurance is not a new business line for either group, but they mainly
Published:Wednesday | May 8, 2019 | 12:25 AMAvia Collinder/Gleaner Writer The Government yesterday tabled a Green Paper proposing a compulsory national health insurance plan that would offer equal benefits for contributors regardless of income. Financing for the initiative would be sourced from a combination of employee contributions or premiums and
Business powerhouses GraceKennedy (GK) and the Musson Group yesterday announced a partnership that will see the two companies collaborating to enter the group health and life insurance market under the name Canopy Insurance Limited. Canopy is expected to formally launch operations in the second half of 2019, a statement issued
Just over $30 billion will be spent over the next five years to upgrade some of the country’s ageing health facilities. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has, however, acknowledged that the capital injection of between $27.2 million and $31.2 million is “critical extraordinary expenditure to play catch-up”. “[It
