Imani Duncan-Price in robust discussions with the founding managing partners of StartUp Junkie Jeff Amerine (left) and Brett Amerine in Fayetteville, Arkansas. StartUp Junkie works with entrepreneurs, startups and growth-oriented companies in every stage. 1 2 On her Eisenhower Fellowship, Imani Duncan-Price has travelled to several cities in the USA
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde in conversation with Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre) and then Ambassador Plenipotentiary for Economic Affairs, Dr Nigel Clarke at the Pegasus hotel in New Kingston last November. Leader of the Opposition Peter Philips is in the background. (Photo: Richard Browne) Last year, on
The Government is taking steps to amend the Pensions (Superannuation Funds and Retirement Schemes) Act, following the disclosure by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) that only a handful of the Jamaican population had a pension plan. In her sectoral presentation to Parliament earlier this week, Fayval Williams, minister without portfolio
Sagicor Financial Corporation Ltd posted an overall group net income of US$38.9 million for the quarter ending March 31, 2018, a 44 per cent increase over the same period last year, the company reported this week. The solid Q1 performance was boosted by improved total revenue over 2017, the company
JAMAICA has been working on establishing a policy framework for disaster risk financing, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Fayval Williams said on Tuesday. Williams, who was making her first contribution to the sectoral debate in the House of Representatives since being promoted to
NCB Financial Group and contesting parties will seek to resolve their impasse over the Jamaican bank's takeover bid for Trinidadian insurance conglomerate Guardian Holdings Limited at the negotiating table. They have asked for a suspension of the formal hearings into the matter by the Trinidad & Tobago Securities and Exchange
Andrew Mahfood, chairman of Food For the Poor Jamaica, receives a symbolic presentation of a 'key to a home' from Simone Walker, executive director, Sagicor Foundation and vice-president, group marketing, Sagicor Group Jamaica representing a US$3,600 donation from Sagicor Foundation to assist with funding the building of a house for
Una McPherson (left), president of the United NationÂ’s WomenÂ’s Guild (UNWG) Jamaica receives the symbolic presentation made in the form of a diploma, from Frances Angus, wealth adviser at Sagicor Investments and Sagicor Foundation volunteer. The presentation was made at the guildÂ’s annual fund-raising brunch held recently at the Jamaica
Sagicor Group Jamaica raked in higher revenue and profit during first three months of 2018. It recorded consolidated revenue of  $15.82 billion, up by 5 per cent when compared to the same period in 2017, while net profit increased two per cent to $2.64 billion. Sagicor says the profit outcome
Denis O’Brien, chairman and founder of Digicel Group and patron of the Digicel Haiti Foundation sits in a classroom with Haitian school children. The way companies give is changing. Many of today's organisations are integrating philanthropy into the heart of the business, bringing benefits to employees as well as recipients.
