Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said the Tourism Workers' Pension Scheme, designed to provide retirement benefits for all industry workers, is on track to be implemented by January 1, 2020. Mr. Bartlett said by then the first set of applicants should be registered for the landmark plan. He was speaking
BUYING property with another person may appeal to some individuals. If you are one of them and you decide to buy a property with someone else — be it your spouse, child(ren), business partner, or friend — one of the most important factors to consider is your ownership (holding) options,
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Micro, small and medium-sized (MSMEs) manufacturers will soon be able to benefit from new a loan facility offered by the National Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of Jamaica at an interest rate of 4.75 per cent. State Minister in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Floyd Green, made
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Domestic flights are set to resume on Monday, July 8, with the introduction of daily service by local aviation company, Jam Airlink Express. Flights will be scheduled out of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay where Jam Airlink is based; Negril; Ian Fleming International Airport in
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says that is moving closer to finalising its first Youth Policy and Operational Strategy (YPOS), which will guide its youth-related investments in the region. Stakeholders from 17 of CDB's Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) recently met here for a regional workshop to
Twenty-one stocks, representing about a quarter of ordinary listings on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) made double-digit gains between January and June, reflecting a continuation of the market’s bull run. The stocks gained between 12 per cent and 173 per cent over six months. Comparatively, the six-month Treasury bill rate
The Access to Finance Facilitation Panel, a group made up of the Government, private institutions and business development organisations, is exploring movable assets as security for loans as one of the measures aimed at hitting a $100-million target in private sector credit to small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, by
CARICOM partners remained adamant yesterday that Jamaica should make further payments to the Caribbean Development Fund (CDF) after they were told ahead of one of the caucuses at the 40th Heads of Government Conference in St Lucia that the country could not afford to do so because of its tight
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday morning, making hanging lamps sway and photo frames on wall shake. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The 6.4 magnitude quake measured struck near in the Mojave Desert,
There were decreases in the volume and value of Jamaican dollar transactions processed by the commercial banks' automated banking machines (ABMs) in 2018 compared to 2017. The volume of the transactions declined 1.7 per cent to 62.3 million, the monetary value of the transactions decreased by 43.4 per cent to
