The Biden administration is working on new regulations that would require airlines to compensate passengers and cover their meals and hotel rooms if they are stranded for reasons within the airline’s control. The…
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Advertorial | Are we fooling ourselves about Salvation?
The Bible teaches that we are saved by grace through faith – “by grace are ye saved through faith” (Eph. 2:8). Somehow, this seems to have become “grace and grace alone” rather than…
De-dollarisation
The dominance of the US dollar has been a hot topic in recent weeks. The consensus is that in the long term there may be a trend toward currency diversification. However, the dollar…
Oran Hall | Setting up a trust
QUESTION: I read your article in The Gleaner on setting up a trust, but you never went into detail. I don’t know if I can do it myself like I registered my company,…
Cedric Stephens | New road traffic rules, child seats and motor insurance
Jamaica is the only country that dedicates an entire month – May – to activities focusing on children. A Jamaican paediatrician, Dr Cecily Williams, actively promoted the idea. She was globally recognised for…
Innovative Systems raises $220m for expansion
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,…
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…