Stories by Tameka Gordon

Plans to give legal weight to the two-year-old revised Motor Vehicle Import Policy (MVIP-2014) have made some headway but not enough for the Trade Board to make a call...

Moorland Development Company, the architects of Manchester-based Moorlands Estate and Moorlands Manor, has kicked off its third real estate project, PalmBrook, in Lacovia, St Elizabeth.PalmBrook will be delivered in three phases, with overall spend...

Progressive Grocers of Jamaica is to centralise its warehousing at the former Twickenham Park home of Carreras Limited, a complex it acquired last March from the cigarette...

Mortgage leader Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) has slashed it mortgage rates to 8.5 per cent in response to the shift in the market.The building society, which now commands 52 per cent of the market, said its rate reduction will span all...

The Dairy Development Board has got private sector buy-in for its latest drive to revive the industry under a new campaign dubbed ‘Drink Real Milk.’ Its three partners — Seprod, the CB Group through its Nutramix subsidiary, and...

Box maker AMG Packaging and Paper Company says its new consumer paper products will hit the market in a matter of weeks, a market segment largely served by imports.The products will include "what we call a lower end and a higher end toilet paper,"...

Phillip and Sandra Martin of WAK Investments are the new owners of the Jamaica Livestock Association (JLA) complex in Kingston, a deal the Rainford family confirmed was struck last year.The over 70-year-old JLA has been liquidating assests amid...

Lasco Manufacturing has entered the ice cream market, but not in a traditional way.The company is making the powdered version of the treat, called Lasco Ice Dream dessert mix, which will be sold not from freezers in grocery stores, but the dry goods...

Food conglomerate GraceKennedy has entered the retail sugar market, while Seprod is two weeks away from introducing its product - the latest developments in the rapid evolution of how the sweetener is traded within the span of just one year.Around...

Poultry import ban lifted, farmers fear loss of market shareTameka GordonBusiness ReporterThe Ministry of Agriculture, throughits Veterinary Services Division, has lifted the ban on imports of poultry, allowing players to resume purchases from...

Gore Developments Limited says it is pouring $15 billion into its next residential project called Montego West Village over six years, with the first set of houses scheduled to hit the market...

Celebration Jamaica plans to break ground early this year for its integrated casino resort, conceived eight years ago by businessman Robert Trotta.Celebration has partnered with...