It has been five years since the initial announcement, but GraceKennedy Limited still plans to list on the London Stock Exchange or other foreign market. Other events have overtaken the food and financial services conglomerate, which is otherwise executing plans that are meant to deepen its global footprint. “The truth
While focused largely on Trinidad, this issue is relevant to the entire region. Jamaica is considered well ahead of Trinidad on this because it hasn't had any oil and gas. The risks connected to climate change are mounting. Across the Caribbean, the increasing frequency and growing intensity of extreme
TOURIST arrivals in Jamaica are projected to climb to 1.5 million visitors for the 2018-19 winter season, which ends later this month. According to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, the record visitor arrivals — of which 900,000 are stopover visitors – should rake in US$1.6 million in revenue for the period
Chris Hind (left), general manager, JN General Insurance Comany, talks road safety with Trevor Christie, deputy superintendent, National Police College of Jamaica Faculty of Operations Management and Skill Training, and driver upgrading course graduate officer, Ryan Reddie. GENERAL manager of JN General Insurance Company, Chris Hind said police drivers need
“Court upholds $35 million award for workplace injury.”So read one headline in this newspaper’s Business on March 17. The article should be mandatory for owners and aspiring operators of small and medium-sized businesses – an emerging entrepreneurial group. The events that led to the court award provide an example of
The head of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday the global economy is at a “delicate moment” with a hoped-for rebound in growth later this year being threatened by a variety of factors, such as rising trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. IMF Managing Director Christine
A financing deal struck between Jamaica’s NCB Financial Group and large shareholders of Guardian Holdings Limited, GHL, is turning out to be an impediment to the Jamaican banking conglomerate’s takeover of the regional insurance giant based in Trinidad & Tobago. NCB has made an offer for an additional 32 per
GENERAL insurance company BCIC awarded a trophy and cash incentive to the most improved female and male schools — Hydel High and Jamaica College — for their impressive performances leading up to Champs 2019. BCIC support of the winning schools at the Digicel Grand Prix Finals/G C Foster Classic showdown
In this May 15, 2013 file photo a traffic sign indicating a speed limit of 120 km/h (75 mph) is pictured at the highway A59 close to Troisdorf, Germany. The European Union (EU) is moving to require cars and trucks to have technology that would deter speeding as well as
Speaking at a post-Budget panel discussion hosted by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies and the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies last Wednesday, Roberts, who is also co-chairman of the Public Sector Transformation and Oversight Committee, said that he was anticipating
