Low mortgage - Scotiabank offers 11% loans to public sector workers
The Scotia Jamaica Building Society (SJBS), a subsidiary of the $200 billion Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited (BNS) is to offer public sector employees low interest mortgages in 2007 priced well below current rates in the marketplace.
CIBC makes bid for FirstCaribbean minority shares
CIBC has completed purchase of 599.4 million shares of FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB) under the previously announced plans to acquire Barclays Bank's 43.7 per cent ownership in the...
The proper theology of money and wealth
Today is Christmas Eve. Many persons and organisations engage in special acts of philanthropy at this time, in the spirit of Christmas.
Look for more M&A activity, mild stock price appreciation in 2007
Over the past several months, the local stock market has rebounded quite sharply from its low in the middle of July.
JSE index tops psychological 100,000 barrier - ... BOJ immediately announces interest rate cut
With just a few days left before the close of trading for 2006, 'the bulls' came out charging in this week's activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE).
BoJ cautions investors on offshore banking service
Jamaica's central bank has advised investor caution on plans by Capital Solutions Limited to partner with an overseas trust company to offer offshore banking services.
Defined benefit plan versus defined contribution plan
The defined contribution plan and the defined benefit plan are the two basic arrangements through which pensions are provided to beneficiaries.
Tourism from all angles: the good and the ugly
With Tourism expected to be the major economic provider for jobs (direct and indirect), revenue, sectional linkages, and other spin-offs in the Caribbean economy as we go deeper into the 21st century, this book is indeed timely as it carries...
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