FINSAC divestment
yet to affect
property market
VETERAN real estate dealer and president of the Realtors Association of Jamaica, Don Glanville, said the property market was not yet feeling the effect of the pending sale of the bad debt portfolio being held by the Financial Sector...

Major shocks derail Cement Company profit
DESPITE reporting a net profit for the first time since 1996, general manager of Caribbean Cement Company, Arun Goyal, said the company could have done much better than the $359.6 million posted for January-December 2000, were it not...

The art of expediency
THERE has been a lot of talk recently about how unethical and irresponsible it was for The Gleaner to sell its front pages to the country's leading telecom companies. These "wraps" managed to incur the wrath of many journalists who feel that the...

40,000 IT jobs
unrealistic says Kerr
OPPOSITION Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesman on emerging technologies, Vindel Kerr, is charging that Technology and Commerce Minister Phillip Paulwell's projection of 40,000 new Information Technology (IT) jobs over three years was "unrealistic and...