Bond investors trigger dollar slide
ON WEDNESDAY evening, the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ), for the second time in as many months, convened a meeting with the major players of the financial sector. The topic was the same as the last time - the rapid depreciation of the Jamaican dollar...
Jamaica's corruption slide arrested
JAMAICA HAS broken the trend of increasing corruption, according to the annual survey of global corruption released this week by Transparency International. The country scored 3.6 on a scale of one to 10, with the least corrupt country, Iceland...
How to catch a corporate crook
DEALING WITH both deliberate and inadvertent theft has been challenging for many business persons and companies. The alertness of managers and company directors has to be at a high level in this age of technology...
Investors are the priority - Roper
"THE WHOLE purpose of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is to protect the customers of financial services, whether it be insurance, securities, pensions and mutual funds/unit trusts."
Pooled investment funds good for the long haul
FOR THE first nine months, however, of the year unit trusts and mutual funds products have been challenged in delivering healthy returns to investors against the backdrop of a miasmic stock market and low interest rate regime.
Caribbean urged to cut Internet costs
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: GILLIAN MACINTYRE, permanent secretary in Trinidad's Ministry of Public Administration and Information, yesterday encouraged members of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to work together...
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