Sagicor Financial Corporation (SFC) and Scotia Life Trinidad and Tobago have mutually agreed to discontinue their 20-year distribution deal, which expired on June 30. The original deal brokered by SCF in November 2018 would have resulted in the financial holding company acquiring the Jamaican and Trinidad insurance operations of Scotiabank.

Being set for life, when you retire from your job, or the daily ‘grind’, is easier than you think, if you apply the ABC plan shared by Camille Steer, corporate manager, fund services, at JMMB Fund Managers, during a recent episode of the JMMB Goal Getter Live (webinar) series. Steer,

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — As governments rushed out funding to prevent an economic collapse amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, global public debt swelled to the highest in history, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Friday that cutting back too soon could undermine the recovery. Continuing to provide the

Sagicor Financial Corporation (SFC) and Scotia Life Trinidad and Tobago have mutually agreed to discontinue their 20-year distribution deal, which expired on June 30. The original deal brokered by SCF in November 2018 would have resulted in the financial holding company acquiring the Jamaican and Trinidad insurance operations of Scotiabank.

Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has partnered with Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and Sagicor to stage a social enterprise round-table and grant proposal writing workshop aimed at helping the development of the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector and social enterprises (SEs). According to JBDC Chief Executive Officer Valerie

Community & Workers C o- operative Credit Union of Jamaica (C&WJCCUL) will be shortlisting on the Jamaica Stock Exchange $900 million deferred shares owned by its members. The move, a first for any credit union in Jamaica, is aimed at identifying a consistent source of funding, the company said in

Sagicor Bank recently staged a forum to assist customers, particularly those within the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector, cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses. The online forum, held under the theme 'Overcoming Anxieties: The SME Perspective', saw business leaders being engaged and encouraged by

Four years into the much touted 5-in-4 growth agenda, the Economic Growth Council (EGC) has said that the realisation of its projected target was not achieved and has been worsened by the severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking with the Jamaica Observer earlier this week, executive director of the

Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Immediate Past President Howard Mitchell is encouraging business and financial institutions to conduct a sensitisation campaign on insolvency and the availability of earlier intervention for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). “As a community of business people we suffer from a culture of shame

The PIOJ said it was not anticipating that the economic recovery from COVID-19 will be as long as the recovery period following the global economic recession in 2008-2009, given the relative strength of the Jamaican economy along with the stimulus packages implemented both locally and globally The Planning Institute of