Published:Sunday | April 3, 2016 Q: Many thanks for your article in The Sunday Gleaner of March 20, 2016 about GAP Insurance. I am actually in the process of purchasing my first motor vehicle and the information that you provided has opened up my insurance platter. What are some of
Friday, October 09, 2015 LIMA, Peru — World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, (right centre), walks to where he will meet with Latin American economy ministers, in Lima yesterday. The world's finance ministers and central bankers are in Lima for the joint annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 THE Government says it will have to cut at least $8.6 billion from its recurrent budget for 2015/16 due to a projected shortfall in revenue and the "higher than planned" cost of its compensation packages. Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips made the announcement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 28, 2015 – 11:00 a.m. The Meteorological Service has issued a Severe Weather Alert effective until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. Tropical Storm Erika is now located south-southeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is moving toward the west-northwestward. On its forecast track, the centre of Erika is expected to move well north of
Tropical storm Danny, the first named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, continues to develop about halfway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles. Danny is forecast to reach hurricane strength by Thursday. The computer model forecast shows that it may not reach near the eastern Caribbean
Published:Sunday | August 9, 2015 QUESTION: My motor policy expires at the end of this month. I am planning to buy directly from an insurance company instead of using an insurance broker. Two things have influenced my decision. The first is the consistently poor quality of service that the broker
Friday, July 24, 2015 BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com State Minister in the Ministry of Finance Horace Dalley An agreement between the Government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) on a $4,000 per month pay increase over 2015/2016 is expected by the end of next week.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 A panel of experts and policymakers at the Third International Conference in Ethiopia last week gave the nod to crowdfunding -- where ordinary citizens invest small amounts of money in businesses, social projects or charitable causes -- as a potential source of billions of dollars in
