ne hundred micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are to benefit from capacity-building, technical assistance or grants in the upcoming financial year. This will be facilitated under the Boosting Innovation, Growth and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (BIGEE) project, for which $350 million has been allotted in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, now

Caribbean Assurance Brokers has gone digital, as it seeks to offer more products online while growing the business seamlessly in this pandemic-struck business environment. The multi-line insurance broker has been forced to pivot its business towards new digitised product offerings in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. As such, Caribbean

Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Managing Director Marlene Street Forrest says over the last 10 years the percentage of investors in the local equities market has grown from 2 per cent to 10 per cent. “What we have found also when we disaggregate is that many of these are younger persons

Sagicor Real Estate X-Fund had its worst year on record as losses for the 2020 financial year (FY) ended at a net loss attributable to shareholders of $10 billion with the consolidated net loss standing at $15.4 million. The real estate company, whose primary exposure is in the tourism industry,

With indications by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government's ambitious COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plan stands to be staggered, not by the lack of potions but more by a shortage of personnel to administer the jabs, the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) is signalling that its

Business lobby group Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, JCC, is urging the government to follow through on a desire expressed by Minister of Finance Nigel Clarke to engage stakeholders in discussions about the bases, merits and experience of urban... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20210303/loan-market-hits-trillion-dollar-mark-under-pandemic

Approximately 65 per cent of Jamaicans are being targeted for vaccination by March 2022. However, health officials are wary that vaccine hesitancy might affect that ambitious goal. The country is expected to receive its first batch of 50,000 vaccines from India by Thursday, which will form part of a total

There have been ample indications of the formidable challenges to the heavily tourism and hospitality skewed investment holdings of Sagicor Real Estate X Fund Limited under the pandemic. But its newly released financials showing a $9.99-billion... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20210303/10b-hit-x-fund-company-sees-path-recovery-through-non-tourism-projects

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that the government will be maintaining a transparent and efficient COVID-19 vaccination programme that will prioritise those most vulnerable to the infectious and deadly disease.  The first doses of vaccines are to arrive this week and a further breakdown of the vaccination programme is to be outlined then. "We would