The Jamaican Government is proposing to use the stock market to raise funds for infrastructure projects in a move to avoid increasing the national debt, according to finance and the public service minister, Dr Nigel Clarke. The country requires investments in the "hundreds of billions of dollars" over the next

Jamaica's Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of December 2018 fell by one per cent, triggering a drop in the country's annual point-to-point inflation rate to 2.4 per cent at the end of December 2018. The plunge in inflation will also force the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) to file

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Commuters including students and people on their way to work had to sit in traffic for long hours after a truck transporting cooking gas caught fire along the busy Rose Rose Hall main road in St James this morning. Preliminary reports are that the driver disembarked

Over 600 'Life Guardians' representatives of Guardian Life Limited and their partnering brokerage companies travelled into Kingston from across the island to attend a New Year 'Blast Off' and motivational session hosted by Guardian Life Limited at the Jamaica Conference Centre recently. The event, which is the first on a

GraceKennedy said it has made a number of changes at its senior management level as it continues to streamline its structure in alignment with its 100th anniversary objectives. The changes, effective April 1, form part of an ongoing transformation process announced by the company in August last year, the company

A decline in agricultural prices, along with a significant reduction in international oil prices, resulted in the consumer price index falling by one per cent for December 2018, bringing the annual point-to-point inflation rate at December 2018 to 2.4 per cent. That was lower than the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ,

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The Barbados government has put a temporary freeze on borrowing even as it reported an improvement in the island's economic position. "Over the next four years the Barbados government will not borrow any new funds. To put the impact of that into context, over the past four

A &A Lime Hall Development Limited, a company incorporated in 2004 as a rental service in Montego Bay, St James, has offered PDV Caribe S.A. a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), US$100 million for its 49 per cent stake in Jamaican oil refinery Petrojam Limited. In a letter dated

STRASBOURG, France (AP): European Union, eu, leaders were pleading Wednesday with the UK to finally get its act together on Brexit, end internal strife and come up with a realistic plan to leave the bloc well over two years after Britain decided to leave the EU and departure just 10

A REPRESENTATIVE of Jamaica's Climate Change Division (CCD) has noted the intention to support the use of the recently published special report on 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming to inform policy and planning in Jamaica. "I consider science as foundational in our decision-making processes, because it provides the evidence