Monday, March 16, 2015 Glendon Gordon, VP, Individual Life Sales, Guardian Life Limited, looks on as Deanna Ashley (second right), chair of the St Andrew High School Foundation signs the Memorandum of Understanding sealing the partnership between the two on the Charity Gifting programme. Sharing in the photo is Jessica Jones, Foundation Project Manager. GUARDIAN [...]

Former adviser to the ministers of finance and agriculture, and former World Bank representative in Jamaica, Dr Wayne Henry, has been recruited by Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica as vice-president of government affairs. Henry previously had a different relationship with the banking group as a board member of former subsidiary Scotia Jamaica Investment Management Limited, [...]

The Sterling Report  With Marian Ross  Sunday, March 08, 2015 MANY savers believe that their pension contributions (as well as those made on their behalf by their employers), or some multiple thereof, will be returned to them during their retirement. However, as we illustrated last week, devaluation and inflation erode the value of money over [...]

On April 22, 2013, my 2008 Toyota RAV 4 motor vehicle was hit by a Ford truck while exiting the Rock Bridge in Falmouth, Trelawny. The truck driver did not wait for me to clear the bridge before entering, and therefore hit the rear of my vehicle, causing extensive damage. A police sergeant who was [...]

MINISTER of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips has confirmed the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) agreement to an extension of the deadline for public sector salaries to be reduced to nine per cent of GDP, which could make it much easier to reach an agreement with the trade unions by March 31. "We have already [...]

Henley MORGAN.  Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Earl Jarrett (left), JN managing director and chairman, JN Foundation; Denise Herbol, USAID mission director; and Anthony Hylton, minister of industry, investment and commerce; enjoy a moment at the inaugural SEBI Summit, January 2015, held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel. A prudent man holds on to the old as [...]

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Jamaica’s trade and investment agency, is putting the finishing touches to the 2015 Jamaica Investment Forum (JIF), which is slated for the Montego Bay Convention Centre from March 10 to 12. JIF is the island’s premier international investment and business conference, designed for eager investors and business executives [...]

BY STEVEN JACKSON Business reporter jacksons@jamaicaobserver.com.    Wednesday, March 04, 2015 President and CEO of Sagicor Richard Byles (left) speaks with IMF resident representative in Jamaica Bert van Selm (centre) and Sagicor chairman Danny Williams at a Sagicor pension seminar at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston yesterday. (PHOTO: COLLIN REID) INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund [...]

Published:Sunday | March 1, 2015 While persons might have been injured in this recent accident the insurance companies are seeing more instances where scammers are claiming that they were injured in accidents.   An upward trend in personal-injury claims from motor vehicle accidents over the past seven years has the Insurance Association of Jamaica convinced that [...]