TransJamaican Highway Limited, TJH, which operates the East-West leg of Highway 2000, plans to raise up to $14 billion through an initial public offering on the market at $1.41 per share. The offer will open on February 17 and close March 9. But...
Investors can expect the release of the prospectus for TransJamaican Highway and its possible listing in February, according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness. TransJamaican is already projected to be the largest initial public offering of shares ,...
Jamaica National Group, the largest mortgage lender in the local private market, has landed a banking licence in the United Kingdom that will both allow it do business there and provide cross-border banking services to group members. Not only is...
Fewer Jamaicans think that business conditions will improve a year from now, according to the Survey of Businesses’ Inflation Expectations published by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). In fact, expectations are at the second lowest level in three years...
The gap between male and female pay in Jamaica continues to shrink, but one should not expect gender parity in the island before the next 100 years, according to a new global report which ranks the island at 41 in the world. That’s little...
Resellers are populating sites with Jamaican coat of arms merchandise that rapper Kanye West has pulled from his website. They mostly want ‘double or nothing’ for the merchandise, selling items for several hundred US dollars. It signals the latest...
Kingston Properties Limited, KPREIT, which operates a listed real estate trust, expects to double its market capitalisation with a $2-billion rights issue. It would take the market capitalisation to $3.8 billion from the current $1.8 billion as at...
Micro traders using Fast Track, a three-day delivery service to the United States (US) and other parts of the world, were hit with a fee hike by the Jamaica Postal Service this month ranging as high as 80 per cent, according to different sources....
The foreign owners of Jamalco are activating a new holding company that could be used as a vehicle to list the alumina refinery on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE. The new holding company “can be JSE-listed and engage in opportunistic upstream or...
The rights issue planned by MPC Caribbean Clean Energy is targeted to raise more than two times the proceeds of its initial public offering, IPO, last December, the Financial Gleaner understands. MPC Caribbean’s board approved the rights issue a...
Sugar and rum producer Worthy Park Estates has introduced a rum tour, which it sees, initially, as a way to raise awareness of the company’s brand but a revenue earner in the long run. Worthy Park invested just about $6 million to retrofit the...
Wigton Windfarm head Earl Barrett has rebuffed the sell recommendation from large brokerage house NCB Capital Markets. NCB Cap, in a report released last Friday, described Wigton, a stock listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange(JSE), as overpriced...
Pending shareholder approval next month, JMMB Group plans to increase its capital by 20 per cent via an offer of shares to the public. At the current trading price of the stock, the level of increase sought equates to around $17.5 billion, but JMMB...
Jamaica’s large telecom providers have separately accused the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) of overreach and are warning that its new directives could be costly to implement, amid a push by the regulator for the sector to be more open with...
Mining start-up Geophysx Jamaica plans to ramp up exploration activities in August, having spent $200 million to build out its operations. The company holds a dozen licences to explore for copper, zinc, gold and other minerals, said founder and...
Key Insurance Company, known for its motor and property policies, has developed a turnaround plan for the business to achieve profitability and improve its capital ratios. It comes in the wake of a breach of Key’s minimum capital test for its full...
Telecoms provider Digicel Group posted a nine per cent drop in its earnings for its fourth quarter ending March 2019, and is expecting its debt levels to rise. The company said its earnings were impacted by one-off costs. “We are fully committed to...
Carube Copper Corporation has sold the exploration rights for six of 11 lots it holds in Jamaica, but will continue to prospect for copper and gold in the Main Ridge and other blocks for which it holds permits. The Canadian company sold the six...
SSL Venture Capital Jamaica announced a new board at the weekend following three resignations, which was followed up with notice of two management changes. Separately, the company’s auditor, Baker Tilly Strachan Lafayette, avoided giving an opinion...
Proven Investments Limited, PIL, is projecting significant profit growth this year when its investment in financial conglomerate JMMB Group would be fully factored into its financials. JMMB contributed US$1.3 million to Proven’s bottom line for the...
PanJam’s naming of its waterfront development as the ROK Hotel, in partnership with the international brand Hilton, will aid in the revival of the downtown Kingston business district that has been afflicted by urban blight for decades, says...
Flooring contractor Caribbean Industrial Systems (CIS) will seek to raise $65 million in a bond offering as part of a series of financing measures that will eventually see the company listing on the stock exchange. CIS plans to list within two...
CHRISTCHURCH, Barbados: Tahseen Sayed, World Bank country director for the Caribbean, says more investment is needed to save lives in a region hit annually by storms. And Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley wants Caribbean nations to create...
The Loshusan family plans to build a shopping complex in Mandeville at Caledonia Drive on lands that currently house a Shoppers Fair supermarket, an inside source revealed. The Loshusans are indirectly connected to Shoppers Fair as members of the...
JMMB Group, one of the largest financial service providers, advised its clients to consider cutting their losses and sell their Digicel bonds, which is now trading at around 33 cents on the dollar. It’s a sign that investors are losing patience...
