Air J may need financial assistance
FOLLOWING the events of September 11th, 2001, Air Jamaica sustained losses of approximately US$70 million and may need financial assistance to remain competitive. peaking at a briefing to update the media on the state of Air Jamaica...

Jamaica Broilers turns in best performance ever
THE Jamaica Broilers Group said that with a turnover of $6.4 billion, due mainly to an increase in the sales of its Best Dressed Chicken, the results of its last financial year represented the company's best performance ever.

IMS creating Jamaica's largest private education institute
THE Institute of Management Sciences, (IMS) has entered into a formal purchase agreement with the ICD Group Limited to acquire the real and intellectual properties of the local higher educational institution...

Grace Kennedy opens new financial centre in Brooklyn
ANOTHER Jamaican company has put down roots in the New York area to serve the financial needs of the expanding Caribbean immigrant population. Grace, Kennedy and Company Limited last Saturday (September 6) officially opened its new subsidiary, Caribbean.

IMF calls for policy shift
THE country needs to adopt some new policies to deal with its economic deterioration, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A combination of violence, flooding and the effects of September 11...

Investing in Bonds - Part 5 Understanding news on bonds
WHILE we had intended to use this next article to look at how global bonds are traded and some of the issues affecting their liquidity, we have been urged to take the time to explain a few commonly used terms...

Walking the economic tightrope
PITY this country that has followed a lot of the current orthodoxy coming out of the Washington Consensus (i.e. the IMF/World Bank, the IDB and the US Govt.), but finds itself with worsening economic and social problems. At the start of September...