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20 Sep, 2026 0

FID seeks broker to sell 11 forfeited properties

The Financial Investigations Division (FID) has gone to market for a real estate brokerage firm to sell 11 properties taken from criminals, the first concrete step towards the privately run disposal…
Culture Minister Olivia Grange stands in front of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council building in London, England, holding the historic reparations petition document filed to King Charles III.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice

Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s head of state…
Yaneek Page
20 Sep, 2026 0

Yaneek Page | Ja’s crime rate nears Costa Rica’s, but growth promise unfulfilled

There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the dramatic fall in Jamaica’s murder rate…
18 Sep, 2026 0

Food replaces transport as inflation driver, says finance minister

Jamaica’s inflation problem has shifted from transport costs to drought-hit food prices, Minister of Finance and the Public Service Fayval Williams said on Wednesday, as she argued that the economy…
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18 Sep, 2026 0

Rock Solid scales staff eightfold on tank demand

Rock Solid Plastics Ltd turns out up to 150 water tanks a day from its Kingston factory and now employs 40 people, up from five when it started in 2020. The company said demand has held steady as…
The entrance of the Financial Services Commission office on Barbados Avenue, New Kingston.
18 Sep, 2026 0

Insurers, dealers face recovery-plan rules as FSC consultation closes

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) closed public consultation on Wednesday on guidelines that would require insurance companies and securities dealers to keep board-approved recovery plans…
Business
18 Sep, 2026 0

Ibex cuts 1,405 Jamaican workstations, shuts half island centres

Outsourcing provider Ibex Ltd closed two of its four Jamaican delivery centres and cut 1,405 workstations from the island during the financial year to June, stripping out 37 per cent of its Jamaican…
Bank of Jamaica headquarters located on Nethersole Place in downtown Kingston.
18 Sep, 2026 0

Rate-hike expectations climb from a fifth to a third among local business leaders

Jamaican business leaders expect inflation to ease to 6.8 per cent by December, even as a growing share anticipate that the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will raise interest rates. The central bank’s July…
18 Sep, 2026 0

Apple TV comes to Jamaica, and VPNs can go

Jamaican subscribers can now reach Apple TV through a storage plan that costs US$0.99 a month, less than the price of a patty, while Americans pay 15 times as much for the service on its own. The…