President of Guardian Life Limited Eric Hosin looks across New Kingston from the top of the Guardian Centre on Trafalgar Road on November 13, 2017. Guardian Life Limited, the second-largest insurance outfit in Jamaica, reckons it is doing well in a competitive market despite a reversal last year of a rapid profit climb in recent [...]

Curtis Martin, managing director-designate of JN Bank Limited. Curtis Martin, chief financial officer for Jamaica National Group, will take over as the new managing director of JN Bank Limited in one week, replacing Maureen Hayden-Cater who departs the bank on November 30. Martin, who once ran Jamaica's largest merchant banking outfit prior to its sale [...]

DONALDSON... I drive the fact that we promise to pay claims as quickly as we can to return the claimant to the pre-claim position. This is the time our insured need us, and this is the time when they need to feel the value of our promise (Photos: Joseph Wellington) Today the Jamaica Observer [...]

Richard Byles, Chairman, Sagicor Group Jamaica took the stage at the PSOJ Hall of Fame gala and gave a moving response following his induction on November 13, 2017 at the Jamaica Pegasus. (Photo: Leo Hudson) Chairman of the Sagicor Group, Richard Byles, says that improvement in Jamaica's human capital within both the public and private [...]

For people who are looking for a last-minute plan to profit from the Christmas season, we asked our panel of experts to recommend some ideas for generating income. Actually, the window of opportunity is not as wide as you might think, and strategic planning is absolutely necessary. However, there are a number of income ideas [...]

TERRY... the scarcity mindset is the belief that there will never be enough For every dollar the average Jamaican earns, more than half goes to debt, according to a report by the Bank of Jamaica in 2016. Now the year 2017 is almost gone, and given the current debt owed by the nation and its [...]

Minister of Finance Audley Shaw greets IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde as Prime Minister Andrew Holness looks on, last week. (Naphtali Junior) Former Minister Ronald Thwaites, in a Monday article in another newspaper, used the line, picked up in the article's headline “Now that the boss has spoken”, discuss the IMF's ongoing call for public [...]

PIOJ) Director General, Dr Wayne Henry (right), addresses journalists during the PIOJ's recent quarterly media briefing at the agency's head office in New Kingston. At left is the PIOJ's Director for the Economic Planning, Research and Policy Logistics Division, James Stewart. KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Director for the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Economic Planning, [...]

The 65th president of the Jamaica Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (JAIFA), one of the oldest membership organisations in Jamaica, is chartered life underwriter Monica Robotham, who won the support of her peers at their recent annual general meeting. She will serve for the period 2017-2018. Robotham, a unit manager at Sagicor's Senators Branch, [...]

MOTOR CYCLISTS IN NEGRIL Motor cyclists in the Negril area were the beneficiaries of a Seminar on riding safety on Sunday, November 19, 2017 when Tarik Kiddoe and his team presented attendees with important instructions on how to ride with safety as their premier consideration.   The IAJ is a major sponsor in the series of [...]