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
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
Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Fayval Williams (second left) with, from left, Milverton Reynolds, managing director of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ); Earl Barrett, general manager, Wigton Windfarm Limited; Gary Peart, CEO, Mayberry Investments Limited, and Oliver Holmes, chairman of the Wigton board of directors at Wednesday's Mayberry
President and CEO of the VM Group, Courtney Campbell (front left), explains to beauty therapist at the Heart College of Beauty Services, Jo-Hannah Owens (centre), how she can become a homeowner under the specialised groups mortgage offer. Looking on are VM Group Chief Customer and Brand Officer, Judith Forth Blake
Ryan Parkes, chief, business banking and public sector engagement, JN Bank, addresses teachers about financial management during an investment seminar organised by the Jamaica Teachers' Association for its members on March 26. The event was held at Mandeville Hotel in the Manchester capital. A banker has warned Jamaicans that borrowing
