How does insurance premium financing work?
QUESTION: WHAT are the pros and cons of premium financing? Our insurance agent recommended that we use it to pay the premium for our pharmacy. - S.K.L., St. Ann's Bay P.O., St. Ann.

Why the Internet should scare you
I HAVE delayed publishing this article so as not to scare as I know many of you are still afraid of your computers and consider the Internet a kind of side door to hell. In 1995 when I first got on the Internet...

Firm linked to Seaga bidding for Enchanted Gardens
OPPOSITION LEADER Edward Seaga is a director of the United States based firm bidding for his Enchanted Gardens property in Ocho Rios. The 129 room Ocho Rios resort accumulated arrears in General Consumption Tax...

Tough times ahead - Davies
FINANCE AND Planning Minister Dr. Omar Davies said that whichever party forming the next government would face major challenges with earnings tourism and the bauxite and alumina industry...

Small Business Association in decline
THE SMALL Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) is a non-profit membership organisation established in 1974 to promote and enhance the growth and development of small businesses throughout the country.

Financial sector thriving
THE ASSET base of the island's six commercial banks totalled just over $257.6 billion as at June 30, this year, with the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) Jamaica taking the biggest slice of the pie with almost $99.6 billion.

Gloria's: a Port Royal tradition
IT HAS been more than two years since Gloria Prawl passed away, leaving her children to carry on the tradition of preparing fine seafood, which Gloria's of Port Royal had established since the early 1970s.