Business
April 4, 2026
Mayberry Investments taps bond market to refinance $2b
The Kingston-based Mayberry Investments Limited on Thursday launched a secured bond offer seeking to raise $2.06 billion from Jamaican retail and institutional investors, with proceeds earmarked for…
April 7, 2026
The 2026 Budget: Survive the squeeze or get left behind
If you were waiting for a ‘growth budget’ this year, you can stop. It isn’t coming. The Ministry of Finance already told us what this 2026-2027 Budget is: on their website it is aptly branded the…
April 4, 2026
Everything Fresh cushions hotel-sector blow with retail pivot
Everything Fresh Limited’s diversification beyond hospitality has helped soften the impact of some hotel shutdowns after Hurricane Melissa. Over time, the company has expanded from mainly supplying…
April 2, 2026
JPS writes off J$3.5b in Hurricane Melissa damage as profit slides
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has written off US$22.3 million — about J$3.5 billion — in assets damaged by Hurricane Melissa last October. The electricity utility said in its audited…
April 2, 2026
by Luke Douglas
MSMEs seek bigger share of $470 billion procurement bill
Jamaica’s Government spends about US$3 billion (J$470 billion) per year to procure goods and services from the private sector, with only about one per cent going to micro, small, and medium sized…
April 2, 2026
BOJ holds policy rate citing uncertainty
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has opted to maintain its benchmark interest rate at 5.50 per cent, underscoring heightened global uncertainty and an increasingly fragile inflation outlook as the dominant…
April 2, 2026
Persons outside labour force surge in Melissa-hit parishes
Some 30,100 fewer persons were employed as of January 2026 compared to the year before, and Jamaica’s labour force also fell by 33,000 during the same period, according to key indicators from the…
April 2, 2026
Apple at 50
A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled…
April 1, 2026
Incomplete developments trigger state crackdown
More than 157 real estate developments across Jamaica are currently listed as incomplete despite passing their estimated completion date, according to the Real Estate Board’s (REB) public register.…