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ADVISORY COLUMN: SMALL BUSINESS Financial markets around the world are crashing, Japan ordered a nationwide shut down of all schools, Turkey closed its border with Iran, travel bans are in effect in almost every country around the world, the...

ADVISORY COLUMN: INSURANCE HELPLINE This column began in June 1997. It started by offering independent advice and information about insurance. During its 22.5 years, it has expanded beyond insurance to include the much broader topic of risks....

Stocks sank again Friday after another wild day on Wall Street, extending a rout that handed the market its worst week since October 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. The market clawed back much of its intraday losses in the last 15...

Tropical Battery hopes to open the doors to its new home in Ferry, Kingston during the first two weeks of March, after about a year constructing the facility at cost of $60 million. Its also a step closer to approaching the market for equity...

F rom the long list of products it sells and the extensive network of private and public pharmacies and stores that stock its merchandise, Medimpex Jamaica Limited appears to command a sizeable share of the local prescription and over-the-counter...

The United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in the final quarter of last year, but damage from the spreading coronavirus is seen as likely depressing growth in the current quarter and for 2020 as a whole. The US Commerce...

O n one level, development bankers are satisfied with the continuing maturity of the private equity and venture capital markets, which the Development Bank of Jamaica, DBJ, has spent the last seven years nurturing. But at another level, they...

Michael Riley, who sells vape pens within the burgeoning cannabis trade in Negril, holds a cash card that provides him with flexibility, but only to a certain degree. He doesn’t have a bank account, but uses ePay, a Mastercard-branded cash card...

Caribbean Producers Jamaica will report back to bondholders Friday on progress made in bringing its financial ratios back into compliance with debt covenants, in a follow up to a meeting held six months ago. CPJ Chairman and interim CEO Mark Hart...

The roll-out of the controversial national identification system, NIDS, is receiving strong support from the umbrella private sector group, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, PSOJ. In fact, Christopher Reckord was recently named the group’...

Amazon is aiming to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking up the US$800 billion grocery industry. At the new store,...