Innovative Systems, a retailer of electronic products, has raised $220 million in a bond offer for accredited investors that will fuel its 2024 expansion. The company will add three locations in Kingston, Portmore,…
Category: Business & Economy
Digital marketplace for Jam-Dex
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill is bullish on seeing a number of players in the productive sector embracing e-commerce in a matter of months and taking their business to…
Courts Ready Cash expanding footprint
Courts Ready Cash is increasing the touchpoints with which customers can access its microfinance services as it targets further growth under its new parent company Bluestart Capital. General manager of Bluestart Capital Atasha…
Jannel opens the ‘JAR’ of empowerment
It was her passion for female empowerment, entrepreneurship, and education that led educator and transformational leader Jannel Alexander-Reid to establish the Institute of JAR some five years ago to pour into the lives…
Yaneek Page | ABM crisis: Urgent solutions needed for micro and smallbiz
Over the past two months, some micro and small business owners and their customers have found themselves in the firing line of a deepening cash crunch and automated banking machine dilemma, brought on…
Sygnus project delays stretch investment life cycle
Faced with project delays in the order of six to 12 months, real estate company Sygnus Real Estate Finance Limited, SRF, has pushed back the next starting point for the next cycle, which…
JPS responds after Tell Claudienne’s intervention
Dear Claudienne, I live overseas and I own land in Clarendon that I bought in the 1990s. The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has trespassed on my land and installed a guy wire…
Jamaica on showcase
Montego Bay, Jamaica, will play host to Outsource2LAC Global Digital Summit, the largest outsourcing showcase in the Western Hemisphere, next month, June 14 and 15. The event will be organised by the Ministry…
Sagicor sacks four execs
According to Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited’s 2022 annual report, four executives were separated from the financial conglomerate in addition to other senior leaders who resigned to take up positions at other listed companies….
UDC to bring 68 commercial lots to market
The Urban Development Corporation, UDC, has begun groundwork for the sale of roughly 108 acres of Caymanas Estate lands, all of which is slated for light commercial development. So far, the state agency…
