The rerouting of ring road at the University Hospital of the West Indies, UHWI, is now out to tender as plans ramp for the phased development of five structures, referred to as medical…
Oran Hall | There is life even with taxes
As good and responsible citizens, it is incumbent on us to pay our taxes, not just on income from employment, but from investment activities. Taxes leave us with less to spend, save, and…
Cedric Stephens | Insurance crisis needs unified approach from Caricom
Jamaica and its Caribbean neighbours are facing an insurance crisis. This emergency is like the increasing inflow of illegal guns and ammunition from the United States into the region. The entry of weapons…
Adekeye Adebajo | From Abuja to Durban – Africa’s 30-year quest for reparations
Last week (April 29) marked the 30th anniversary of the Abuja Proclamation agreed during the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations in Abuja in April 1993. The meeting was organised by the Organisation of…
Gordon Robinson | Jamaica needs to invent a new wheel
As Marc Antony did for Caesar, we must come to bury Jamaica’s English Constitution and, with it, 500 years of mental slavery NOT to praise either. The current Constitutional Reform process is a…
Imani Tafari-Ama | Consensus on decolonising education
It is not often these days that feminists and economists agree about educational practices and transformational politics. However, having attended the “Decolonising Education” conference in the first week of April at the University…
Lee-Chin Jr’s Seed Investments lands microcredit licence
Seed Investments, a company led by Michael Lee-Chin Jr, has received approval from the Bank of Jamaica to operate as a microlender. The company, which is the newest entrant in the microfinance sector,…
Catherine’s Peak sales set to hit $1.5b
Catherine’s Peak Bottling Company is on a path towards $1.5 billion in sales this year. The water bottling company owned by GraceKennedy Group expects to rebound from unspecified challenges and ramp up sales…
Appetite for USD loans and foreign government securities grows
Foreign currency loans held by Jamaican investors and firms climbed by nearly 26 per cent last year, driven mainly by sovereign securities, according to the Bank of Jamaica. Meanwhile, borrowing in US dollars…
Promoting peace for 14 years
The 14th annual Easter Peace Championship football competition in the St Andrew Southern constituency was not short on excitement and displays of excellent skill. Thirty-one teams from a number of communities in the…