AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Print Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to EmailShare to More 1 MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Scores of farmers across Jamaica are reeling from rising prices for fertiliser, crop seedlings, and seeds, which have significantly hiked their production costs. President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Lenworth
FOLLOWING the August 2020 judgement over disputed matters between liquidators and shareholders of Trinidad and Tobago-based CL Financial, a company which was once the largest financial conglomerate in the Caribbean, property belonging to the company is now being placed on the market for sale. Liquidators, having clearly determined the totality
WIPAY Jamaica is bringing in more digital money options, with the latest option being an untransferable, unique QR code identifier embedded with digital fiat (digital money). WiPay, the Caribbean's leading fintech company, has unveiled this new digital payment option with the launch of its WiCare Digitial Grant Initiative in partnership
Today we are inviting you to test your level of creativity by finding new ways to live within your means and save more. Here are a few tips from us. 1. Kill pride and laziness and make a budget. As boring as it appears, planning what to spend your money
Global insurance broker Arthur J Gallagher & Company recently acquired Briat Insurance Limited, another brokerage firm based in Grand Cayman. Though the details of the transaction were not disclosed, Gallagher, in pushing its aggressive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy, said that the latest acquisition aligns well with its mission of
As we continue our review of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE's) Junior Market over the last decade, we asked the leading players behind the companies listed to share their reasons for listing and the benefits derived so far. Below are details about the most recent performance of two JSE-listed companies.
n August 2021, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) announced their likely departure from the accommodative monetary policy framework of several years. This intent was consummated on September 30, 2021, when they announced a 100-basis point (one per cent) increase in the BOJ base rate from 0.5 per cent to 1.5
Tech entrepreneurs across Jamaica are set to benefit from capacity grant funding from the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), which will be accessed through TBR Lab. TBR Lab is a high-level tech accelerator committed to the growth and development of high-potential tech entrepreneurs in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. The
he conventional wisdom is that for a central bank with a price stability mandate, monitoring measures of inflation expectations can provide an important gauge of how well it is meeting its goal. In this context, shaping the public's inflation expectation through communications and policy actions is key. For this
Seprod Group CEO Richard Pandohie says Saturday night's fire at the Facey Commodity main warehouse in Kingston was "hard to watch". Read: Fire rages at Facey Commodity It is reported that the fire started about 8 pm and quickly engulfed the warehouse. Expressing that though Saturday night's blaze
