BCIC launches LadyMax service - Targets 80% reduction in vehicle claims
The British Caribbean Insurance Company Limited (BCIC) has introduced a new protection and security product for its female drivers which it hopes will mitigate theft and yield savings of over $300 million in claims from...
Harry Benjamin taking on new and used car markets
Managing director of New Line Motors, Dr. Harry Benjamin, is scoping out lucrative corporate fleets in the private sector, saying he plans to capture about seven per cent of the new-car sales by going after business from companies.
Crooks and an oil spill, which is worse?
Question: My Mitsubishi Galant station wagon is insured with General Accident (GA). In early January, it was hit in the back by another vehicle. It was in a line of traffic near the Ocho Rios Cruise Ship Pier.
Web entrepreneurs slowly taking Jamaica online
Years from now there might not be any advertising on this page you are reading. More dramatically, there may not be a 'page' at all, as content - editorial, advertising, information and media services - migrate to cellular phones and the Internet, a process under way in other markets.
World Bank study: poverty unchecked in indigenous populations
More than 80 per cent of indigenous Latin Americans are still living in "abject poverty", a new World Bank study has found, notwithstanding improvements in the standard of living for the poor in recent years.Since the last decade, Latin American...
STOCK MARKET: Fall continues...... As economic outlook darkens locally and internationally
This week, the need to present to the board and management of a local listed company on Jamaica's current economic outlook afforded me a further opportunity to assess the local economic outlook, a process which I began in last week's...
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