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Lisa Watts, deputy general manager of Lasco Manufacturing Limited.
December 12, 2025

Lasco Manufacturing shelling out $1b to improve efficiency

Lasco Manufacturing Limited, LASM, will invest $1.1 billion by the end of 2026 to improve the efficiency of its operations. This investment is in addition to the $425 million spent on improvements in…
Dayton Wood, chairman of the Jamaica Developers Association.
December 12, 2025

As outsourcing stalls, construction companies eyeing new growth sectors

With the outsourcing sector in Jamaica facing a level of uncertainty at this time, developers of real estate are putting their construction dollars towards space for other types of businesses. Dayton…
Intel global headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
December 12, 2025

Anne Krueger | Trump’s effort to pick America’s corporate winners will end badly

For at least the last 150 years, state intervention in picking individual industries and firms to support has been shown to undermine productivity and weaken economic performance. When political…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
December 12, 2025

Musk reports Tesla sales jump after months of boycotts

Six months after Elon Musk left the Trump administration, to the great relief of Tesla investors worried about boycotts, the world’s richest man has announced some good news: Sales of Tesla cars are…
Business
December 12, 2025 by Neville Graham

Indies Pharma raises new bond, board to determine roll-out of HQ project

Pharmaceutical distributor Indies Pharma Jamaica Limited is expected to tackle the development of its prime real estate holding at Ironshore in Montego Bay, having raised funds to refinance existing…
Business
December 12, 2025

Express Catering posts highest profit since pandemic

Express Catering Limited, ECL, operator of food and beverage outlets at Sangster International Airport, reported flat revenue but more than doubled its net profit to US$3.8 million for the financial…
Theresa Lindo, managing director of Pure National Limited.
December 12, 2025

Pure National ice factory awaiting BSJ sign-off

Nearly a year after its plant was almost totally destroyed by fire, Pure National Limited, Jamaica’s largest manufacturer of ice, says it expects to restore operations shortly. The company is in its…
December 12, 2025

Petrojam buying new crane to replace obsolete equipment

Petrojam Limited, operator of Jamaica’s state-owned oil refinery, is acquiring a new mobile crane. “The procurement opportunity is an urgent one,” said Elon Parkinson, communications manager at…
In this September 2013 photo, a technician operates a machine at Elite Diagnostics Limited in Kingston.
December 12, 2025

Elite grows profit amid debt financing

Elite Diagnostics Limited, a provider of medical scanning services, posted net profit of $32 million, or nine cents per share, for the year ending June, a 22 per cent increase driven by steady growth…