Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging ordinary Jamaicans to buy shares in state-held Wigton Windfarm Limited when the energy company’s initial public offering comes to market, saying that shareholders are more effective at holding management accountable. “Experience has shown that shareholders are far more effective at holding the management of
Mecheck Willis was seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident in 2001. The driver of the other vehicle was 16-year-old Devar McFarlane. The latter reportedly lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the car that Willis was driving. McFarlane died as a result. Willis, a 40-year-old higgler, suffered injuries
Jamaica has to decide whether it is ready to cede control of sovereign assets to outside investors to achieve its ambition of becoming a global logistics hub, in the example of Singapore and Dubai, says British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad. Jamaica wants to position itself to join Rotterdam,
Although Jamaica’s stock market is ranked as the best-performing in the world, the population of investors that trade its listed equities is small, and Marlene Street Forrest wants to see those numbers triple. The number of investors has been growing steadily in recent years, but still falls below 200,000 accounts.
NCB Capital Markets CEO Steven Gooden chats with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and JSE Managing Director Marlene Street Forrest at the JSE Conference on Tuesday night. (Photo: Karl McLarty) COUNTRIES with well-developed capital markets experience higher economic growth than countries without, declared the CEO of NCB Capital Markets, Steven
WHILE focus has been shifted to the Mining and Quarrying industry with the reopening of Alpart, former Prime Minister of Jamaica Edward Seaga is adamant that improved efficiencies in the country's agriculture sector will significantly turn around growth prospects for Jamaica. Seaga, who was speaking at the 14th Regional Investments
President of the Jamaica Securities Dealers Association and CEO of NCB Capital Markets Limited, Steven Gooden (right), greets former Prime Minister Bruce Golding during day two of the JSE 14th Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference 2019, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Wednesday, January 23, 2019.
At least one local luxury resort is looking to cut its annual energy costs as well as reduce its carbon footprint this year. The resort, which has not been named, has secured a deal with Los Angeles-based Capstone Turbine Corporation for a C200 Signature Series integrated cooling, heat and power
Chairman of the Government's Economic Growth Council (EGC) Senator Aubyn Hill yesterday insisted that the council's confidence in their projected 5-in-4 (five per cent in four years) growth figures still stands. According to Senator Hill, who was chairing yesterday's press briefing on the EGC's seventh report on its activities, at
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is encouraging Jamaicans to buy shares in public companies. He was speaking yesterday at the 50th anniversary of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Regional Investments & Capital Markets Conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Alluding to energy company Wigton Wind Farms, Holness said the Government
