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Rodrigo Calvo (foreground), executive vice-president, real estate, PriceSmart leads a tour of the newly opened PriceSmart location in Montego Bay with Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Senator Aubyn Hill (centre) on Tuesday. Also pictured are Mayo
02 Oct, 2026 0

PriceSmart opens MoBay club with US$28m investment

PriceSmart has opened its first warehouse club in western Jamaica, investing more than US$28 million in a new Montego Bay location that is expected to create 182 jobs and further expand the retailer’s…
Dr Ike Johnson
02 Oct, 2026 0

Sygnus co-founder Ike Johnson to step down as COO

Sygnus Capital Group Ltd says co-founder Dr Ike Johnson will leave his post as executive vice-president and chief operating officer (COO) on December 31, ending a decade in the senior ranks of the…
Naomi Campbell has a reason to smile after she won a legal challenge on Thursday to overturn a five-year ban on serving as a charity trustee in England and Wales.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Naomi Campbell’s five-year charity trustee ban overturned

LONDON (AP): Supermodel Naomi Campbell won a legal challenge Thursday to overturn a five-year ban on serving as a charity trustee in England and Wales that she said had “hurt deeply”. A three-judge…
The Portmore, St Catherine JMMB location.
02 Oct, 2026 0

JMMB Group watching interest rates hikes, adds that Guyana market difficult to enter

Large financial provider JMMB Group Ltd said it is closely monitoring US interest rates and Middle East tensions, while flagging the Guyanese market as difficult to enter. “It’s a little volatile…
Payoneer offices.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Payoneer renews Etsy deal, but most Jamaican sellers remain shut out

Payoneer, the cross-border payments company many Jamaicans use to collect overseas earnings, has renewed its partnership with global marketplace Etsy through to 2029. The renewal continues Payoneer…
Tyrone Wilson, founder of Kintyre Holdings Ltd.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kintyre seeks additional US$500,000 to fund growth

Kintyre Holdings, the Junior Market company, aims to raise US$500,000 in private equity funding to finance operations. Earning nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in profit over six months has…
This image, released by Amazon/MGM Studios, shows Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett in a scene from ‘Verity’.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Movie Review | ‘Verity’ puts Hathaway, Johnson and Hartnett in Colleen Hoover thriller

AP: In Verity, it’s hard to know who to trust. There’s Anne Hathaway’s titular character, a wildly popular novelist who is unable to speak or move after a car accident, but whose secret, disturbing…
Craftpersons seen creating jewellery at the Pandora factory in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, on Wednesday, September. AP
02 Oct, 2026 0

Pandora opens $150-million Vietnam jewellery factory powered by renewable energy

Danish jewellery company Pandora has opened the world’s largest fine-jewellery crafting facility in Vietnam, a US$150-million factory powered entirely by renewable electricity and using 100 per cent…
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning displays a copy of the School-Based Assessment (SBA) Concession document during a press conference held at the Overseas Examinations Commission in St Andrew in January.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?

I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…