Business

CUNA Mutual Insurance Society has relaunched what it says is a unique product in its category - a payment protector rider which provides coverage for credit union members who suffer from temporary disability caused by accidents and medical reasons while servicing loans.

THE TEACHERS' professional revolving loan fund, which dried up in the last fiscal year, will be revitalised with an allocation of $95 million.Education Minister Andrew Holness told Parliament's Standing Finance...

William Mahfood is ramping up capacity by 30-40 per cent at Wisynco Group's factory in White Marl, St Catherine, requiring an investment of $600 million in a new beverage line on which construction should start next month. Mahfood wants to grow...

Global Directories Jamaica Limited (GDJL) has won its legal battle against Cable and Wireless Jamaica, now trading as LIME Jamaica, over differences on the payment terms offered to advertisers in the Yellow Pages...

Chapter Four of former chairman of the Eagle Group of Companies Dr Paul Chen-Young's written testimony to the FINSAC enquiry.This section suggests a number of issues that the Commission might consider under its terms of reference....

Markets drove up Greece's borrowing costs again Tuesday despite last week's promise of a financial backstop from other eurozone countries, indicating the country's debt crisis is far from over....

Governor of the Bank of Jamaica Brian Wynter is pressing for cooperation among regional financial regulators on the policing of banking groups whose operations straddle jurisdictions, while reiterating...

Jamaica's exporters say agro-processors are losing out on overseas sales, particularly the bammy market, and are blaming adjustments to import policies that they say limit their supply of raw materials.But Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton ...

Do you have the ability to make people happy? If your witticisms and wisecracks cause hearers to hold their sides and cry tears while laughing, and you believe that you have what it takes to be successful in comedy, there might be...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is banking on an additional $2.8 billion of collections from National Insurance Scheme (NIS) contributions in the new fiscal year, needed to offset the fallout from investment income...

Sagcior Life Jamaica and its investment banking subsidiary Pan Caribbean Financial Services (PCFS) have been removed from 'watch' status by CariCRIS, the region's only credit rating agency, which says it is now satisfied that their exposure to the...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says drilling for natural gas off his country's Caribbean coast has found a "superwell" and the deposit could be nearly twice as large as originally thought.