Big Mac cuts growth plan
PLANS FOR the local arm of McDonald's to aggressively expand have been suspended indefinitely as the precipitous state of the economy and the slide of the local dollar continues to hit businesses hard. In March of this year McDonald's (Jamaica) managing.

Tax-free bond muted
THE MINISTRY of Finance appears set to issue a new tax free index linked US dollar bond it emerged yesterday. Primary dealers were yesterday being canvassed on the move which is designed to help ease the pressure on the local currency that has...

Nestlé eyes T&T
NESTLÉ JAMAICA said it might be able to export some of its products to Trinidad & Tobago following the closure of some plants there last week, but stressed that the Jamaican company would have to be more competitive. General manager of...

Thwaites to head Guardian arm
TRINIDAD'S GUARDIAN Holdings has made further inroads into the Jamaican financial sector with the acquisition last week of another local insurance firm, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance (Jamaica). The name of the newly-acquired company will revert to..