Paymaster signs rural electrification deal

PAYMASTER, YESTERDAY, signed a five-year contract with the Rural Electrification Programme (REP). This brings to 27, the number of contracts the company has signed since its first with Jamaica Public Service Company in October 1997, the year in which...

Private sector gains from S&P credit upgrade - Morrison

JAMAICA'S PRIVATE sector stands to benefit from the recent improvement in the country's credit rating says senior director of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Dennis Morrison. Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, announced in...

Jamaica has lowest private savings rate in Caribbean
JAMAICA HAS the lowest private savings rate in the English speaking Caribbean and the highest consumption rate. Data compiled by Wednesday Business obtained from the Barbados Central Bank, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Bahamas, and from the Bank of...

Consumers should do their homework

Q UESTION: You say that we should always read policies. That is BEFORE we take out insurance. Buyers are never shown them before business is concluded. We get them months later. And yet, we are expected to comply with policy terms. The courts allow...