Cable & Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) to offer prepaid facility for landlines
"WE'RE BETTING that prepaid service landline service will bring customers back. We've lost a heck of a lot of money to outstanding balances." Rodney Davis, president and chief executive officer of Cable & Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) made this statement...

Carib Cement to slash fuel costs
CARIBBEAN CEMENT Company Limited's (Carib Cement) shift from liquid fuel to solid fuel will allow it to produce cement at a cheaper cost two years from now. The company is now using greater volumes of coal and petcoke...

Property market on a roll
SALES OF commercial buildings are now the highest they have been for years as 'big things' are happening in the commercial real estate market in Jamaica, Judy Benjamin, sales manager for JN Real Estate Company Limited,has told Jamaicans in the diaspora...

Solving the Budget conundrum
THE MAJOR task facing the Jamaican Government in April, will be to find a workable fiscal Budget that will last longer than the parchment that it is written on, before the usual revisions are made to it. A lot of coincidental and favourable factors...

New box-making factory to open
WITH A $300 million investment, Commercial Holdings is about to re-invent itself from a distributor to an indigenous box-making factory. The firm is housed in the old Hand Arnold building. That firm has been around for 84 years...

NCB reaches out to Jamaicans in Canada
IN ITS continuing focus on encouraging investment in Jamaica, the National Commercial Bank recently partnered with JAMPRO in hosting a forum on business opportunities in Jamaica to a wide variety of Canadian businesses and other potential investors...

New pension regulations will ensure best practices
IT APPEARS that long required regulation of the pensions industry will soon commence now that the Senate has passed the amendments to the Pension (Superannuation Funds and Retirement Schemes) Act, 2004 (the 'Act')...

Trinidad - a plum in the pie for Digicel
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: DIGICEL'S GROUP chief executive officer, Colm Delves makes no secret that getting a critical stakehold in the Trinidad and Tobago's expanding market would be the plum in the pie for the fastest growing mobile...