Category: Business & Economy

PRESIDENT OF of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, MSME, Alliance, Donovan Wignall, has welcomed National Commercial Bank’s, NCB, Quick Biz Express, the bank’s fully digital financing solution for pre-approved small and medium…

April 5, 2023 In Wednesday’s trading session the following reflects the movement of the JSE Indices: • The JSE Index declined by 1,159.46 points (0.35%) to close at 330,217.61 points and the volume…

THE GOVERNMENT plans to host a ‘Shark Tank’-style pitch room to evaluate its ongoing tourism incubator participants. “At ‘Shark Tank’, entrepreneurs can have one of two results: The entrepreneur can be chosen by…

THE VALUE of bank fraud dipped to roughly $700 million in 2022, the lowest in five years, according to the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, in its recent Financial Stability Report 2022. Local banks…

FACTORIES CORPORATION of Jamaica, FCJ, is treading softly with its planned, expanded commercial park in Naggo Head, Portmore, waiting for the last two months for approval from Cabinet before disclosing costs for the…

THE PRIVATELY held Cornerstone Group, which recently received the greenlight from the central bank to reorganise into, and seek a licence as, a financial holding company, has valued itself just shy of US$1…

BEIJING (AP): FURIOUS AT US efforts that cut off access to technology to make advanced computer chips, China’s leaders appear to be struggling to figure out how to retaliate without hurting their own…

UNITED KINGDOM (UK) health services provider Cambridge University Hospitals has been seeking to recruit registered nurses and midwives for full-time, qualified nursing positions in all clinical areas across the hospital, with a fresh…

FACED WITH a first quarter loss and peaks and troughs in its revenue flows, air conditioning company, CAC 2000 Limited, has struck a deal with Real Marketing out of Trinidad and Tobago to…

LONDON (AP): BRITAIN’S PRIVACY watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty yesterday for misusing children’s data and violating other protections for young users’ personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued…