Poor pay and poverty
ONE OF the good results of the persistent and broad debate on globalisation is the highlighting of the need for increased productivity on the part of workers in companies if nations are to remain competitive.

First Global Bank launching credit card
First Global Bank Limited is set to enter the lucrative credit card market when it launches its dual-currency Visa credit card this week. "We wanted to ensure that we did it right and at the right time," president of First Global Bank, Wayne Wray, told...

Scotiabank CEO gets regional award
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): THE CARIBBEAN Association of Banking & Finance Institutes (CABFI) has honoured William Clarke, chief executive of Scotia Bank Jamaica along with six other of the region's top bankers.

Capital & Credit teams with CaribPay
CARIBPAY HAS teamed up with Capital & Credit Remittance Limited in Jamaica to improve its service to the Jamaican money transfer market. In addition to being able to send money to any bank account or credit union account in Jamaica...

Budget position to improve next quarter says Davies
A CONFIDENT Omar Davies addressed the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's Job Creation Awards ceremony to a nearly full house of private sector business leaders at the Terra Nova hotel yesterday morning.

JAMPRO starts web service
JAMAICAN AND other Caribbean producers are being offered an opportunity to increase their chances of grabbing a share of the business opportunities expected from staging of the Cricket World Cup 2007.

Regional stock exchange conference to clarify CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE agenda of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) far advanced, Roy Johnson, executive chairman of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), is calling for increased discussion and analysis on how the regime will impact...