Women account for more than a third of investors in Jamaica, but younger women make up just over half of the new accounts on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE, separate data sets show. “I can confirm that roughly 37 per cent of the JSCD account...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index continued its bear run on Tuesday, again ending marginally down. The sluggish trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 41/43. The JSE Combined Index declined by 1,583.85 points or...
The company behind a digital token called tether has agreed to pay US$41 million to settle charges that it misled investors by claiming the token was fully backed at all times by US dollars and other fiat currencies. The Commodity Futures...
Blue Power Group Limited is expanding its capacity with the purchase of an additional production line from Kirk-FP Limited, a member of the Cari-Med Group, which is exiting the manufacturing of soaps to concentrate solely on distribution. The deal...
I have Type II diabetes. I do not consider the condition to be a death sentence. I pay close attention to the foods and drinks that I consume and to how much I eat. I walk for about one hour, five to six days each week. I check my fasting blood...
The buzz of real estate development activity taking place in the Corporate Area’s so-called Golden Triangle, one of the most sought-after neighbourhoods situated just outside the New Kingston business district and bordered by main arteries Hope,...
Earlier this year, the World Bank commissioned me and five fellow academics to develop recommendations on how to improve the methodology behind its annual Doing Business report, which ranked countries on the quality of their business regulations...
As a company leader, you are probably interested in employees doing their best work. But most new staff members quickly lose the inspiration they had on their first day. How can you intervene so that precious employee motivation doesn’t get lost so...
Health insurance premiums are expected to increase as a perfect storm of events converge to push up costs. Insurance industry leaders say that they have been holding back on upward revisions since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, opting instead...
Near the Twizzlers and Sour Patch Kids at a New York candy store are fruit-shaped soft jelly candies that earned a spot on the shelves because they went viral on TikTok. A flood of videos last year showed people biting into the fruit gummies’...
QUESTION: My Father died in 2015 and left a will. What I cannot understand is, he and his wife went to England in 1960 where they both worked before they purchased their houses in Jamaica. They were young people when they left in their early 20s...
If you have a vivid imagination, enjoy writing, love creating stories and would like to earn passive income from your literary talent, then this article is for you. There are amateur Jamaican writers earning thousands of US dollars in passive...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed the week marginally down on Friday. The hectic trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 45/33. The JSE Combined Index declined by 458.67 points or 0.11 per cent to close at 407,...
Mexico has long had a problem with illegally imported cars, and on Wednesday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to legalise them all. The cars, mainly from the United States, are known in Mexico as ‘chocolate’, a play on the word chueco...
Pierre, a 37-year-old Haitian, says not a day goes by in which he doesn’t think of leaving Chile, like the multitudes who have grown frustrated and headed north towards the United States. He feels caught in a vicious circle: He was laid off three...
T he Pandora Papers, a new investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has fuelled outrage around the world. Politicians, business people, sports stars, and cultural icons have been caught in the act of hiding...
Jamaica’s central bank wants cash-intensive industries to set up digital wallets to pay pensioners, enable toll road payments, and facilitate remittance flows. That would cover nearly one million people, cumulatively, based on the figures cited by...
The sales of British shoe company Clarks Limited, currently being promoted within the dancehall culture, dropped by nearly half, or £575 million ($115 billion in Jamaican currency), when compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to financials...
A lready dotted with luxury apartments, the hillside overlooking Ocho Rios is to be further developed with the construction of a multistorey residential complex, with construction set to begin by year end. In its first investment in the resort...
Rapid technological change is increasingly spurring private – and often Big Tech-promoted – initiatives throughout the world of finance, particularly in the payments domain. As a result, the global financial system has arrived at a potentially game...
SSL Venture Capital Jamaica has begun the divestment of its 50 per cent holdings in Bluedot, through a deal with Yes Iyah Limited that has rankled the founder of the data insight firm. The value of the transaction with Yes Iyah, whose directors and...
In an economy upended by the coronavirus, shortages and price spikes have hit everything, from lumber to computer chips. Not even toilet paper escaped. Now, they’re cutting into one of the humblest yet most vital links in the global manufacturing...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index halted its continued downward trend on Thursday. The slow trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 41/37. The JSE Combined Index advanced by 527.37 points or 0.13 per cent to close at...
Another surge in consumer prices in September pushed inflation up 5.4 per cent from where it was a year ago, matching the highest shift since 2008 as tangled global supply lines continue to create havoc. US consumer prices rose 0.4 per cent in...
