Category: Business & Economy

In May of this year Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith warned that Jamaica’s capital, Kingston, is close to reaching climate departure. If this were to happen it…

JAMAICA is in dire need of comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) laws to govern and regulate the implementation of the technology, according to technology experts. “As with any technology, there are some bad things…

Real estate transactions topped $13 billion in value in the first half of this year, with a plurality of the sales concentrated within the top income bracket encompassing the luxury market, data provided…

A start-up venture called Offshore Oasis Limited wants to construct and operate an overwater bar attraction that will target business from tourists as well as locals. It’s awaiting approval from the National Environment…

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed the week advancing marginally on Friday. The moderate trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 46/53. The JSE Combined Index advanced by 535.15 points or…

SHARE prices for the NCB Financial Group Limited (NCBFG) rallied 8 per cent Thursday as investors’ interest in the stock returned ahead of expectation that dividend payments will resume, after a two-year hiatus,…

Minister with responsibility for skills and digital transformation in the Office of the Prime Minster Senator Dana Morris Dixon says Jamaica’s labour market now faces a crisis as 13 per cent of high…

Jamaica Agricultural Society President Lenworth Fulton has cited three court cases and problems with the delegate’s list of eligible voters as the reasons for the derailment of the group’s annual general meeting on…

More entrepreneurs operating businesses within the tourism sector are taking up loans on offer from the National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica, new data from the state-run financial institution has revealed. The EXIM Bank…

Executive Director of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Imega Breese McNab is to demit office come Friday, July 21. She said the decision to resign was not an easy one despite…