QUESTION: I want to invest, but I don’t know what company to invest in and how to. I don’t know where to start, but I know I would like to make a step towards some kind of investment that can turn over money short term. – Shanakay FINANCIAL ADVISER:
If you were to get sick tomorrow and go through life-saving surgery: Who would show up for you? Would your family be alright financially? Would you have felt accomplished with your life up to that point? Would your will be ready? Would you have left life with any regrets on
MEDICAL science students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) now have greater access to innovative technologies to make the process of health-care delivery more efficient. This access comes through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the institution and Novamed Inc – a company that drives health-care ventures
AN elite quick response motorbike team, similar to the one operating in Montego Bay, St James, which is helping to swiftly nab criminals, is soon to hit the streets of the Corporate Area. Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson, addressing members of the Jamaica Diaspora during a virtual Citizen Safety
THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has been identified as the body which will be responsible for dealing with complaints against microcredit institutions, under a new Microcredit Bill, tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. According to the Bill, the CAC will become the body responsible for not only accepting
PROGRAMME director for the National Identification System (NIDS) Warren Vernon says that biometric data for the national identification database will be encrypted to prevent unauthorised access. “Your fingerprint and facial image will be encrypted, so that a regular person just can't access it like that unless you have the resources
Insurance giant, Sagicor Group Jamaica, SGJ, is set to stanch multibillion-dollar losses on its investment hotel portfolio of 20 million shares in international hotel chain Playa Hotels and Resorts, held through several of its associated companies Sagicor Real Estate X Fund and Jamziv MoBay Jamaica Portfolio Limited. Sagicor announced this
A lot has been said about the late Gordon “Butch” Stewart, and his impact on entrepreneurship and the general development of Jamaica. In my eyes (as I have said in the past), he has had a more positive impact on promoting Jamaica than any prime minister, just like Bob Marley.
Published:Wednesday | January 6, 2021 | 12:15 AMNeville Graham/Business Reporter January 2020 would have opened with some amount of optimism about the Jamaican economy. At that time, the economy would have completed 19 consecutive quarters of growth before registering a flat three months to December 2019, as the country’s economic
Published:Wednesday | January 6, 2021 | 12:08 AMSteven Jackson/Senior Business Reporter Previous Next 1 2 It’s been a slippery slide for the local stock market over the past two years and the pandemic has made matters that much worse. From the best performing exchange in the world in 2018 repeating
