Medical Associates - next stop for Lee Chin
MICHAEL LEE Chin's acquisition wagon has now stopped at the Tangerine Place address of Medical Associates Hospital. Along with Kingston Wharves, Blue Cross and United General Insurance Company, the Canadian-Jamaican billionaire included it among...

Economic developments and activities ... this week in our past
SEAGA ASSESSMENT April 7, 1961: Legislative Council Member Edward Seaga said Jamaica's social problems were the result of the interplay of economic discrimination and racial discrimination, an involvement in which the former was the principal...

Financial sector reshuffle
IT IS getting hard to keep track of just who is where in the financial sector right now. Over the last few months financial houses have been juggling key executives among themselves with some coming out as net beneficiaries of the changes.

Care needed in pension funds reform
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WRITE from the perspective of a former manager of a trust company, which had as the major part of its portfolio, pension schemes administration and investment banking. That company had, and I believe still has, the largest pool of...

Winners and losers in the new Cabinet
IT'S EARLY days as yet but already there has been a slimmed down Cabinet, with the current 14 members, expected to do what 17 members previously did. If this is a slight shift in steps towards a smaller government, then it's a step in the right...

Does the new PM require a new economic model to make Jamaica grow?
IT IS unlikely to be a coincidence that consumer confidence, as measured by the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce's Conference Board, has soared to an all time high of nearly 30 per cent above the level in the previous quarter...

FSC to use risk-based approach for pension supervision - Wynter
BRIAN WYNTER, executive director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), announced recently that the Commission would be using a risk-based approach for its pension supervision programme. This risk-based tool, Mr. Wynter explained, would be utilised.

Training boost in tourism
WESTERN BUREAU: TRAINING IN the tourism sector is now more accessible through the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) and its Team Jamaica training programme. The launch of a new 'self-teaching' CD-ROM is expected to substantially increase...

Adjudication vs litigation in contracts
THE CHART shows the lengthy, tortuous and discouraging pathway that a litigant must endure when he/she petitions the legal system for justice. The unfortunate truth is that all parties who enter this maze are in for a long haul and it becomes a battle...

Jamaica Broilers Group builds earnings momentum
HEALTHY AND growing profits in the third quarter (Q3) along with prospects of an equally strong final quarter, renewed interest in Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG), but fears of bird flu continue to scare investors.