With the Jamaican dollar once again trading past $141 to the US currency, there continues to be market apprehension and heightened uncertainty around the volatility of the foreign exchange rate. However, the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, continues to...
S tarbucks plans to introduce Jamaica high mountain coffee in local stores, a less pricey bean grown in a key region outside the famous Blue Mountains. Experts say it will nudge coffee exports and raise the profile of high mountain coffee, but is...
The privatisation of the pension fund system in Latin America was hailed as one of the most important developments of the 1990s. A major challenge for developing countries is the lack of local savings. By definition, developing countries are in...
The JSE Combined Index declined on Thursday with an advance/ decline ratio of 22/42. The combined index declined by 2,431.26 points ( 0.51 per cent) to close at 476,729.48. The Main Index declined by 2,132.31 points ( 0.44 per cent) to close at 483...
A major Spanish hotel chain said Wednesday that the US State Department informed the CEO that he is barred from entering the United States because of his company’s business interests in Cuba. Meliá Hotels International SA said in a statement it...
Canadian company Green Stripe Naturals has pumped roughly US$1.5 million in the acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in local marijuana company Green Peak Growers and the build-out of a 20-acre cannabis farm in Toll Gate, Clarendon. Green Stripe,...
GraceKennedy Limited is exploring the expansion of the Hi-Lo supermarket chain through a mix of express stores and its traditional retail outlets. Group CEO Don Wehby told the Financial Gleaner that the company is currently in discussion with a...
Racquell Brown initially worked with a coffee making company as a marketer. She started a small business “on the side” when the company started to retrench its workforce as the global recession took root in 2009. By the time the axe fell on her...
Morgan’s Harbour Hotel now has a new owner, a Malta-based company that took possession last month following a court ruling ordering the former operator to vacate the property. The sale price to Grand Hotel Excelsior Limited has not been disclosed...
TransJamaican Highway Limited, TJH, which operates the East-West leg of Highway 2000, plans to raise up to $14 billion through an initial public offering on the market at $1.41 per share. The offer will open on February 17 and close March 9. But...
Global business is catching a chill from China’s virus outbreak. Mink breeders in Denmark called off a fur auction because Chinese buyers can’t attend due to travel curbs imposed to contain the disease. Airlines have cancelled 25,000 flights to and...
The World Health Organization (WHO), is working with Google to ensure that people get facts from the WHO first when they search for information about the new virus that recently emerged in China. Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index declined on Monday with an advance/decline ratio of 34/32. The index closed at 489,500.81 points or nearly one per cent lower shaving off 4,201 point. The Main Index declined by 4,321.20 points ( 0.86...
A French court has approved an agreement with Airbus that would see the plane maker pay up to US$4 billion to end years of corruption investigations by three countries. Courts in the United States and the United Kingdom were considering Friday...
NCB Financial Group Limited, NCBFG, is taking steps to enter Guyana, likely through its investment banking unit. The Jamaican banking conglomerate has been eyeing a deal to finance oil development in Guyana, just as the South American country and...
COLUMN: FOREIGN POLICY A little over a week ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in Kingston with Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Andrew Holness. Subsequently, he held a round-table with the foreign ministers of The Bahamas, Belize, Dominican...
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An estimated 5,031 new housing developments are expected for the parish of St Catherine over the next two years in response to increasing demand for affordable residential units. The developments, which will come from both private developers and...
The Jamaica Government lost more than US$202,000, or just over $28.4 million, in grant funding because of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s slow implementation of a project for poor, disabled people, according to the findings of the...
Winston Butler admits that his small enterprise making and selling wines from a wide range of fermented fruits, vegetables and tropical plants is not yet turning a profit 10 years into the business, which is run out of his home in Mandeville,...
The Bank of England on Thursday opted against cutting interest rates amid signs of improvement in the British economy in the run-up to the United Kingdom’s imminent departure from the European Union, EU. The bank said in a statement that its...
The Hummer, once a gas-guzzling target for environmentalists, is making a comeback. But this time around it won’t burn fuel or spew greenhouse gases. General Motors announced Thursday that it will start selling a battery-powered Hummer pickup...
The number of accounts hosted at the Jamaica Central Securities Depository, JCSD, for stock market investors jumped by more than 48,000 or 30 per cent, largely driven by new market entrants. The numbers also topped 200,000 for the first time –...
