Sagicor Group is expecting to complete its high-end apartments The Azaleas by next year at Seymour Avenue in St Andrew. It signals the further buildout of high-end developments, in contrast to what some realtors see as an oversupply of such...
In Wednesday ‘s trading session the following reflect the movement of the JSE Indices: - n The JSE Combined Index declined by 746.49 points ( 0.15 %) to close at 498,893.70. n The JSE Index declined by 366.20 points ( 0.07 %) to close at 503,058....
British voters have given Prime Minister Boris Johnson a commanding majority. But they have little idea what he plans to do with it, apart from taking the UK out of the European Union. Johnson won last week’s election with a pledge to “get Brexit...
French President Emmanuel Macron is ready to make changes to his unpopular pension reform plans, an official said Wednesday, one day after hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across the country . Prime Minister Edouard Philippe...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:29 AM
Buoyed by a big, new Conservative majority in Parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson toughened his Brexit stance on Tuesday, ruling out any extension of an end-of-2020 deadline to strike a trade deal with the European Union, EU. As...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:29 AM
Thirteen large financial firms are agreeing to pay $337 million to settle claims by Pennsylvania’s Treasury department and about a dozen other government agencies and pension funds accusing them of inflating the price of bonds issued by Fannie Mae...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:24 AM
Boeing is suspending production of the 737 Max as hopes of getting its marquee aircraft back in the air quickly fade. The ramifications are likely to ripple beyond the factory floor of Boeing’s plant in Renton, Washington, across both the aviation...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
French union activists cut electricity to nearly 100,000 homes or offices. Eiffel Tower staff walked off the job. Even Paris opera workers joined in Tuesday’s nationwide protests across France, singing an aria of anger as workers rallied against...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s re-election and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:21 AM
August 8, 2018: C2W Music Limited’s name was legally changed to SSL Venture Capital Jamaica Limited, SSLVC, February 28, 2019: resignation of Drew Gray, CEO of SSLVC March 1, 2019: Mark Croskery takes over as CEO of SSLVC May 1, 2019, to June 4...
Dawkins Brown, the head of Dawgen Global, has acquired Mark Croskery’s 12 per cent stake in SSL Growth Equity Limited, or SSL Group, a holding company registered in Barbados for brokerage and investment firm Stocks...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:19 AM
Herb house operator Kaya Inc will open a third medical ganja café in St Andrew on Thursday after spending $62 million on the leased facility. The multipurpose venue on Lady Musgrave Road will span one acre, with the herb house and associated food...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
The annual sales and profit at Indies Pharma Limited grew by double digit for the listed firm, but its fourth-quarter earnings slowed due to lack of inventory in key products. Earnings per share increased to $0.11 cents per share from $0.09 in...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:17 AM
Jamaicans are buying a lot more goods from the chain of Fontana pharmacies, which earned more revenue even before factoring in its new location at Waterloo in St Andrew. Sales for its first quarter, which runs between July and September 30, 2019,...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
Beverage maker Wisynco is projecting savings in its energy bill of US$1 million or J$135 million per year from the commissioning of its two-megawatt liquefied natural gas, LNG, plant in Lakes Pen, St Catherine. Wisynco already has the LNG engine...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:09 AM
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2019 | 12:08 AM
The number of available jobs jumped in October after hitting an 18-month low the previous month, a sign the job market remains strong. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of available positions rose 3.3 per cent to nearly 7.3 million...
Unrelenting pain in her hips and weeks of insomnia left Nelly Valbuena desperate for relief from her metastatic breast cancer. The university professor found freedom from her disease’s cruel side effects in an unexpected remedy: CBD, a compound...
In Monday ‘s trading session the following reflect the movement of the JSE Indices: n The JSE Combined Index advanced by 2,246.83 points ( 0.45 %) to close at 501,243.15. n The JSE Index advanced by 2,373.62 points ( 0.47 %) to close at 504,792.38...
