Scotiabank Jamaica has seen a significant jump in credit- and debit-card fraud, which hit J$150 million over nine months to July. The higher incidence of card fraud, said Bruce Bowen, president and chief executive officer of Scotia Group Jamaica Limited, is an industry-wide problem.

LIME has formally announced that it will be rolling out a mobile television service in Jamaica by December, saying it will be the first of the telecoms to bring the product to market anywhere in the Caribbean.

I trust you are in a position to give me much-needed high-quality advice on how to invest in the local economy, with specific regard to the equities market. I currently have a small USdollar foreign-exchange account at one of our local money market brokerage institutions. This account was established over six years ago and the current balance is around $8,000...

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A J$4 billion funding package from the European Union (EU) to Jamaica includes J$1.3 billion of support for the sugar industry, which is in the final stages of transitioning from public to private ownership.

Michael Jones, a senior vice-president of human resource with Scotiabank Jamaica, says training under a Master of Business Administration programme generally raises the conceptual and analytical elements of people's skill sets.