Category: Business & Economy

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…

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,…

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, 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,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…