A number of stocks made double-digit gains during Monday’s trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange. The top gaining stocks were loss-makers as investors continue to move up these thinly traded stocks by […]
Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Richard Byles, says the country is beginning to show signs of incremental improvement in economic activity. He cited the relatively buoyant foreign exchange market inflows, adequate reserves, […]
The Government has crafted a lean Budget for the upcoming fiscal year, focusing on an ambitious vaccination programme and jobs as linchpins to spark economic recovery. Both the recurrent and capital budgets […]
The Government’s imposition of tougher curfew restrictions in the wake of record one-day coronavirus infections has been cast by business interests as a crippling blow to an already tanking economy that would […]
More than 120,000 persons have benefited from interventions implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), under its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme, now in its ninth cycle. The disclosure was […]
A nutrient cost analysis has revealed that on average, Jamaican minimum wage earners spend close to half, or 48 per cent, of their weekly income of $7,000 on food. If Jamaica were […]
Another stimulus package is needed to give Jamaica’s tanking economy a fighting chance, Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has asserted. Robinson said the bailout funds should be channelled into the productive […]
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) October 2020 Labour Force Survey showed increased employment for ‘Real Estate and Other Business Services’. This was the only industry group to record a growth in […]
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that Jamaica earned more than US$450 million between June 15, when the country reopened its borders to international travellers, and December 14. Over the six-month period […]
The Andrew Holness administration will be seeking $57 billion over the next five years from the National Housing Trust (NHT) to help cushion the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. That proposal […]
