In a well-received address to the annual Jamaica Securities Dealers Association Breakfast Forum on February 13, 2019, Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke started by noting that “it was the first time this century” that Jamaica had a debt to GDP ratio below 100 per cent,

Sagicor reported yesterday that a record number of participants have registered for this year's Sigma Corporate Run, scheduled for this Sunday in New Kingston. The 21st staging of the run, which has a target of raising $52 million for three beneficiaries, has surpassed its 2019 target of 25,000 participants, as

For the financial year ending December 2018, IronRock Insurance – the newest entrant in a market of nine operating companies – generated a profit of $811,000. By itself that number would be unimpressive. But within its proper context – it marks a turnaround of a large loss of nearly $48

The Jamaican Government will be ramping up its fight against crime, rolling out new legislation geared at giving the security forces greater powers and allocating $9.2 billion more to the Ministry of National Security than fiscal year 2018-19. The Government is projecting to spend approximately $803.2 billion in fiscal year

The Andrew Holness administration has signalled that the enactment of new legislation to fight crime, increasing the capacity of the Jamaican economy to produce goods and services, and seeking to understand the extent of the squatter problem are among the issues that will get priority attention in the new fiscal

The government is projecting that it will spend $803.2 billion to finance the affairs of the country for the new fiscal year. This includes $731.12 billion for recurrent or house-keeping expenses and $72.11 billion for capital expenses. Capital expenses are for new projects like the construction of roads, schools and

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) representative to Jamaica, Dr Constant Lonkeng Ngouana, says that as Jamaica's debt is reduced, more money will become available to invest for the development of the country. Speaking at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Kingston East and Port Royal at Eden Gardens Wellness and

Local farmers seeking to operate large ganja farms as the country’s push towards developing a medical marijuana industry picks up momentum could find run into a brick wall try to insure their enterprises, according to Peter Levy, president of the Insurance Association of Jamaica. Levy said that as a matter

From left: Peter Levy, BCIC managing director, Davee Williamson, BCIC marketing associate; and Robert Montague, minister of transport and mining, at the BCIC conference In a conference for key stakeholders in the transport sector held at the Jamaica Conference centre on last week, British Caribbean Insurance Company (BCIC) offered 100

Newly tabled pension regulations give fund managers more room to invest in a wider range of foreign assets, but leave unresolved the limits on foreign investments set separately by the Financial Services Commission, FSC, and the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ. FSC guidelines allow for 20 per cent, or four times