Business

On Tuesday, March 11, the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) was officially certified as an Accredited Training Organisation (ATO) by the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET)...

Deryck Dilworth, 85, joined the staff at the Kirvine bauxite plant in Manchester in 1954 as a process operator two years after the first shipload of bauxite left Jamaica for the overseas markets. A year later, he was transferred to Alcan, Ewarton plant...

I am a 30-year-old female and have just depleted all my savings in paying for my tuition in acquiring a first degree in business administration. In addition, my income has been reduced by all of J$10,000 due to change of job because of my redundancy.

An accounting lecturer has blamed Patrick Hylton, the former managing director of FINSAC Limited, for his failure to pay off a J$5-million loan before it was sold to collection agent Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation Inc (JRF), a debt which later escalated to J$17 million because of the high interest rates attached to it.

Hussey family, controlled Everglades Farms Limited is investing more than US$6 million (J$515 million) to modernise the Long Pond sugar estate that was shuttered after a disastrous start to its first year as a sugar manufacturer in the 2009-10 season.

Recent management literature claims that inspiring employees is all about building a lofty vision and communicating it to the uninspired. While that idea has obvious merit, it is not the only way for you, as a professional, to elicit your Jamaican employees to extraordinary action.

MAY PEN, Clarendon: CLARENDON civic and business leaders have suggested that education and training is an effective route to develop the parish's youth, while at the same time reduce crime.According to DaCosta Bartley, chief...

FirstCaribbean International Bank has named Douglas Cupidon as head of corporate banking in Jamaica. The banking group said Cupidon was at the helm of the launch of various products and the "seamless negotiation of major commercial deals" on behalf of bank clients....

Former insurance executive, Rev Ralph 'Jim' Parkes, told the FINSAC commission on Tuesday that he is still unable to fathom why the Financial Sector Adjustment Company Limited failed to fulfil its mandate."I left the industry in 1998, and I still can't...

The Hope Institute is expected to save almost J$821,375 per year as a result of the installation of a solar water-heating system installed on the roof at the facility, located near the Elletson Flats community in St Andrew. It is also expected to save......

The Caribbean Export Development Agency, administrator of the European Development Fund, has awarded €2.6 million to 197 firms, surpassing the target of 150, set under the 9th EDF....

Gordon Craig, managing director of Total Jamaica, has dismissed as false reports that his company has been increasing the markup to its dealers beyond the suggested prices by Petrojam...