THERE IS always something happening on the stock exchange. The market is soft, but perhaps because of it, to some extent, some listed companies are buying back their shares from investors, and it…
Andrene Chung | A roadblock to making healthy choices
The role of consumption of ultra-processed products (UPPs) and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in the development of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is well documented. Health education campaigns by various entities, including the Heart…
Gordon Robinson | The abortion debate
It’s an unanswerable proposition that every woman who elects to abort or not to abort a pregnancy makes a choice. So I’m intolerant of an abortion debate that’s labelled as pro-life against pro-choice…
Mark Wignall | I feel your pain, Ambassador Perry
It was an early afternoon on a sunny day in 1965 as we turned the corner at North Street and headed up South Camp Road. About four of us Kingston College (KC) boys….
Mystic Mountain’s majority shareholder asks for rehabilitation of company
DEBBIE ANN Gordon, appointed Trustee in Bankruptcy for Mystic Mountain Limited — the attraction company that is going through insolvency proceedings – disclosed in a creditor’s report issued in March that she was…
Canopy makes $2.7 billion in revenue on path to profit
CANOPY INSURANCE Limited aims to make its first profit in 2023 following its $2.7 billion revenue haul last year. It would represent a milestone for the health and life insurance start-up that began…
SRF 2023 exits to deliver dividends
SYGNUS REAL Estate Finance (SRF) is again committing to delivering a return to investors in financial year ending August 2023. Chief Investment Officer at Sygnus Group, Jason Morris, is promising dividends during the…
Jamaican Producer and Director Merlina Rich to Stage Broadway Debut of Caribbean Drama
The Caribbean play, “Mamma Decemba” by Nigel D. Moffatt, will have its off-Broadway debut on May 4th, 2023, at The New Perspectives Theatre Studio in New York. The play is directed by Jamaican…
6 Reasons You Should be Eating Plantains
Plantains may look like bananas, and they’re a type of banana, but they have an entirely different flavor that fans of sweets will appreciate. A plantain has a thicker peel, tends to be…
Cooyah opens in Montego Bay; eyes global expansion
ROSE HALL, St James — Reggae retail brand Cooyah now has a store in Montego Bay, and its owners are thinking about expanding inter nationally. “Cooyah is for everyone, but first of all,…