AIC funds fail to perform
MICHAEL Lee-Chin has admitted that unit holders who have invested in his AIC Funds, a range of Canadian and United States-dollar denominated instruments that are being offered to Jamaicans as investment options...

Review of interim financial information
COMPANIES, whose shares/stocks are traded on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), are required prepare interim financial statements. The JSE may consider introducing a rule which requires an accountant's review of the interim financial information as is...

Capital & Credit doubles assets
CAPITAL & Credit Merchant Bank saw a 115 per cent increase in its assets for the six months to the end of June, as the financial entity continued to pursue growth in its core banking operations. Assets in the bank grew to $13.5 billion from $6.3...

Investing in Jamaican and Caribbean stock markets
This is another in a series of articles from JMMB Securities Ltd. that addresses key questions about how to invest successfully in the stock markets of Jamaica and the Caribbean. We explore the question of what causes ...

Getting to the roots - No alternative to farming in rural Jamaica
"I have read that our country is stabilising. That may be true, but we have no jobs. We can't send our children to school. Maybe stabilising is a good thing for the countries we pay debt to, but here life is getting harder"...

Ammar is new JCC president - Township renewal; partnership with the State among top priorities
MICHAEL Ammar Jnr., the newly-elected president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), says his plan for the business lobby group does not call for extremely revolutionary measures...

More taxes expected in financial year 2003
TAXES, taxes and more taxes may be the cry of honest citizens in the new year, as the likely outcome of all these outlandish promises being made by political parties as the general election comes to a climax. No doubt the new Government will wish to...