Business

All of us – workers, householders, business owners, whether of a factory, store or stall, and policymakers – are concerned about the recent rise in the cost of food, transportation and utilities. This rise in prices is a global phenomenon due to...

In the Caribbean, summer is when things happen. As the weather heats up and hurricanes pass through, passions tend to flare and crises erupt. Yet such crises rarely occur in more than one country at a time, and the dangers they pose are generally...

NCB Financial Group Limited, Jamaica’s top banking conglomerate, announced plans Friday to release a cash app for money transfers, called Link, its latest digital initiative. Vernon James, the former head of NCB Insurance, will head the venture. “...

Are there any lessons that we in Jamaica can learn from the June 24, middle-of-the-night collapse of the 40-year-old Florida apartment building, Champlain Towers South? The building was a 12-storey oceanfront condominium. Nearly 100 persons lost...

QUESTION: Thank you for your great advice throughout the years. Do you have any tips for growing a service-based business in this pandemic? I actually provide multiple services now, however, I do not want you to publish the details. It was hard to...

Robinhood made its own leap into the stock market on Thursday, the one it helped reshape by bringing millions of new investors to Wall Street, and its shares were falling in their first day of trading. Robinhood Markets’ stock was at US$36.16 as...

O utsourced Management Limited, which trades as itel, has acquired Emerge BPO, a regional firm with operations in Guyana and Honduras. Emerge was founded by Adrian Collins and his wife Carole Fletcher in 2008 and currently represents various...

K enneth Tomlinson of Business Recovery Services Limited has been appointed receiver and empowered by the Supreme Court to recover and distribute the Venezuelan assets in Jamaica — which are mainly monies owed to Caracas and state enterprises — to...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE, announced that two companies have gained broker licences, upping the network to 15. The JSE also expects by next year to start allowing investors to make money from the fall in prices of certain stocks, otherwise...

Of the two million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travellers. Their absence is noteworthy because they are a key source of revenue and profit, underpinning a...

Three tech companies that have amassed unparalleled influence while reshaping the way we live released strong earnings results in a flurry late Tuesday. Although Apple, Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet Inc make their money in different ways, the...