Estate planning is the process of acquiring, using, and preserving assets during your lifetime and arranging your affairs to transfer your assets effectively to your heirs and beneficiaries during your lifetime or after death. When done well, it makes it easier to transfer assets to beneficiaries with ease and at
Banking conglomerate NCB Financial Group Limited is weighing the possibility of raising additional capital as buffer for its enlarged Caribbean operation that has now surpassed a trillion dollars in assets. It’s the first listed Jamaican company known to hit that milestone. The group expects to organically bolster its capital with
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said $1 billion was generated during the just concluded Reggae Sumfest held at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St. James. Mr. Bartlett said this year was arguably the biggest festival in terms of attendance from local and overseas guests. On the visitor arrival side, the
Dr. Constant Lonkeng Ngouana, Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has described the reduction in Jamaica's unemployment rate to 7.8 per cent as a tremendous achievement. Noting that the rate was approximately 16.3 per cent at the start of Jamaica's current engagement with the organisation in May 2013,
Listed company Key Insurance has unveiled what it described as an aggressive turnaround plan geared at reversing financial losses and returning it to stable profits by 2021. The plan is also being touted as a measure to help achieve and maintain at least the Minimum Capital Test of 250%, as
SOMETIMES a nine-to-five just cannot cut it, especially if yours is a single-income household. If you are looking to supplement your income, a side hustle might just be the game-changer you need. Not sure what the options are? Financial adviser Granville Knight shares a list of jobs that would make
BERBICK...the NHT will lend homeowners who have never received an NHT housing benefit up to $2.5 million to make changes or improvements to their house or another house for which they have legal permission to make chang Owning a house is quite the achievement for most but many people start
Jamaica's imports for January to April 2019 were valued at US$2,150.7 million. This is an increase of 8.8 per cent when compared to US$1,977.7 million which was spent for the similar period in 2018 according to the International Merchandise Trade (IMT) Bulletin released on Friday (July 19) by the Statistical
LEVY...if you don't adjust rate downwards, they (apartments) are just going to stay vacant. ((Photos: Norman Thomas)) Jamaica is currently facing a chronic oversupply of apartments, especially in Kingston, where there are upwards of 1,000 unsold units. This according to real estate broker Anya Levy and veteran real estate entrepreneur
CHIEF executive officer of Honey Bun Limited, Michelle Chong has added her voice to those calling for a more structured data-driven focus on the development of Jamaica's small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) agrees. According to Chong, SMEs contribute significantly to the local economy
