CABINET has approved the implementation of a new social pension programme that will see non-pensioners, aged 75 years and older, receiving $3,400 per month with immediate effect. Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams made the announcement at yesterday's virtual post-Cabinet press briefing from Jamaica House. “These individuals should

THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has given a high rating to Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson, but low ranking to politicians in the fight against serious crimes. PSOJ President Keith Duncan told reporters covering the organisation's press briefing that while it had planned the briefing to

IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, through a recent agreement with JMMB Bank has provided the bank access to US$35 million with a five-year tenure to facilitate increased financing to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). The project will also increase the availability of long-term financing to JMMB Bank

aribbean businesses have set bold ambitions for digitisation, but PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Caribbean Digital Readiness Survey 2021 reveals a wide gap between organisations out in front and those struggling to make headway. According to the study released last week, most respondents believe that they're meeting or exceeding targets on integrating new

International technology company Huawei is clearing the air regarding its Fifth Generation (5G) mobile technology pursuits in Jamaica. The Chinese company has disclosed to Sunday Finance that it is not marketing 5G in Jamaica contrary to the impression being given by American officials with former American Ambassador to Jamaica Donald

PARIS, France (AFP) — Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature" according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. The 600-page rundown of scientific material commissioned by the British government highlighted the precarious state of global biodiversity and

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Portland businessman Everton McDonald, otherwise called 'Beachy Stout', has been charged with the 2009 murder of his first wife Merlene McDonald. Merlene was shot dead in May of that year at her Boundbrook home in Port Antonio, Portland. The police said McDonald was also charged for the

I have often wondered why some people are prepared to invest their money without even a basic understanding of what it really means to invest. So often, investment advisers are blamed for not calling their clients to say when they should buy or sell. Sometimes investors, not knowing what they

Chairman of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Dr Wayne Henry, says the agency, in partnership with the Rural Economic Development Initiative, Phase II (REDI II), has been responding to the recovery efforts of small agricultural and community tourism enterprises left vulnerable by the COVID-19 pandemic. At a handover ceremony

NATIONAL Commercial Bank Group (NCB) is advising that there will be no interim dividend payment for the first quarter of its 2021 financial year. This represents a continuation of its no dividend payment which occurred for three of the four quarters of its 2020 financial year, which ended last September.