Hi-Lo performs Basix surgery
HI-LO FOOD Stores has cut its losses on the flagship Basix branch in Kingston but is opening two new-style branches elsewhere. The Hi-Lo Basix branch established four years ago at 83 Hagley Park Road in Kingston was closed on July 31.

PM and CEOs' pay
LAST WEEK was not a good one for our two major daily newspapers. One daily concentrated on the 'estimated benefits' that Air Jamaica brought to the country during the past 10 years, and the other focused on the recently declassified data...

NCB develops new wealth creation unit
The National Commercial Bank's (NCB) Manor Park branch is now converted to a complete wealth creation banking unit.

Court backs ICWI policy claims limit
THE INSURANCE Company of the West Indies (ICWI) won an appeal recently against a widow who sought to claim damages it for injuries she sustained in a 1987 motor vehicle accident.

A comedy of errors?
QUESTION: MY car collided with a minibus over seven months ago. The third party did not tell his insurers about the accident. They asked me to get a police report. It said the other driver was at fault.

Mayberry profits fall
MAJOR INVESTMENT and stock brokerage company, Mayberry Investments Limited, has returned a declining performance in its second quarter to June 30, 2005.

Search engine optimisation
WEBOPEDIA.COM describes the term search engine optimisation (SEO) as "the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a website by ranking high in the search results of a search engine."