Jamaica Gleaner Business

Published: Monday Friday | July 3, 2009

Dyoll vs Dyoll - Fight over $119m court ruling to pay fees to insurance arm
Kenneth Tomlinson, the liquidator for Dyoll Group Limited (DGL) has set a deadline of July 31 for creditors to come forward with their claims, even as he huddles with legal advisors on how to handle at least four lawsuits against the failed company... Read More...

CGM reshapes management structure, adds new layer
Caribbean insurance broker CGM Gallagher Group has added a new layer to the company's management structure, making room for William Tomlin whose 30 years of business expertise it hopes to leverage. Tomlin, who has been serving on the boards of CGM's... Read More...

Short on credit, HAJ turns to NHT for project financing
Faced with a tight credit market, the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) has turned to National Housing Trust to pony up 80 per cent of the financing for two new developments to be executed this year, under a deal that is worth about $640 million based on... Read More...

CARICOM as functioning antique - Integration flounders on creaky regional structure
Once I began contemplating CARICOM conflicts and possible approaches to solution, it hit me. In consecutive columns I will have addressed comments of the top brass of GraceKennedy Limited, even though one is on secondment operating as a minister... Read More...

Jamaica faces structural adjustment medicine
As the Bruce Golding administration moves slowly towards inking an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, there is no gainsaying that Jamaicans need to be prepared for very tough times ahead, whether or not the IMF imposes strong structural adjustment medicine... Read More...

Rivalry sends Trinidad in search of new LNG markets
Increased global competition by new and aggressive liquefied natural gas (LNG) market entrants is forcing Trinidad and Tobago to go hunting for new buyers, including Jamaica.Energy companies, which see an uptick in rivalry for buyers... Read More...

Movements
Harry on board - Harry Smith, executive-in-residence at Mona School of Business (MSB), University of the West Indies, has joined the board of NCB Capital Markets Limited, Jamaica's largest brokerage. Smith is best known as the marketing executive which... Read More...