MORE than 300 Sagicor team members and Sagicor Foundation volunteers will be out today 'labouring' at four children's home across the island in support of the national Labour Day theme 'Child Safety…It's You, It's Me, It's All Ah We'. The four homes receiving improvements are: Reddie's Place of Safety in Rollington Town, Kingston; SOS [...]

Last year, General Accident decided to let its hair down with a new promotional campaign, and the general insurer is still reaping gains from it. The first signs of the campaign’s impact showed up in the company’s year-end results for 2018, when the general insurance company, which trades on the market as GENAC, generated profit [...]

The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that at least four of its water supply systems have dried up as a result of ongoing drought conditions in sections of the island. The NWC says its Higgin Town, Dawson and Content plants in St Ann are out of water. So too has the Violet Bank system in rural [...]

JAMAICA's employment level hit a new high in January, showing 1,232,700 people across the country reporting to work. The data was revealed by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) yesterday during its press briefing for the January to March 2018 quarter. Director General of the PIOJ Wayne Henry noted that the largest increases in employment [...]

PHILLIPSBURG, St Maarten (CMC) — The dry conditions affecting the Caribbean over the last few months are expected to continue into September for most of the region, forecasters said today. “For the June to August, we are expecting it to be drier than usual or close to normal. So we are already dry and we [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. weather officials say the Atlantic hurricane season should be near normal. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday predicted nine to 15 named storms. It says four to eight of them will become hurricanes and two to four of those major hurricanes with 111 mph winds or higher. NOAA Administrator [...]

Floyd Green (second left), minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Investment, Commerce Agriculture and Fisheries, and Dwayne McKenzie (third left), president of Epican Jamaica, cut the ribbon to officially open Epican Jamaica on Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in Montego Bay on May 16. Others in photo from left to right are Omar Robinson, president [...]

The implications of human mortality do not usually weigh on the minds of young people. However, as you get older, see your parents become elderly and suffer the loss of loved ones, you might start to appreciate that you will not be here forever. After you are gone, you will not have direct control over [...]

JAMAICA's fiscal position continues to be in a good place, with the country exceeding targets and operating at a fiscal surplus for 2018/19 according to latest data from the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC). Co-chair of EPOC, Keith Duncan noted that the country's positive position is supported by the BOJ's accommodative stance which has resulted [...]