Stories by Tameka Gordon

Proudli Technologies copped the young entrepreneur prize purse of $300,000 on Wednesday in the Venture Capital Pitch Room of the JSE Capital Markets Conference.The...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is hoping to get at least 60 per cent of its 5,000 room stock rented during the summer months under a new partnership that is meant to gin up demand for the space in idle holiday periods.The new target is...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) and real estate partner 138 Student Living Jamaica will be launching a rental programme to keep the rooms on the residential halls at Mona occupied during holiday breaks. The programme will cover both the...

JMMB Group has launched a suite of products designed especially for women in response to a trend observed over the years where a greater number of its clients are female.Its client base is...

Local meat processors are gearing up for exports to Barbados, where recent reports have highlighted a shortage of pig feed and ongoing shortfalls of pork going back two to three...

Jamaica's meat companies are weighing a resumption of pork exports to Caribbean neighbours, but say it all depends on the reception from government agencies throughout the region and the harmonisation of standards.Pork exports from Jamaica to...

General manager of Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) Courtney Wynter is rejecting the findings of the auditor general (AG) that the state bank has a poor credit assessment process.Wynter said...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) says preliminary assessments indicate that curry powder produced by United States-based spice maker Oriental Packing Company Inc is not present on the local market.The BSJ has been making checks on the heels of...

By the end of the year, tea manufacturer Perishables Jamaica Limited plans to commission a second factory in south Manchester.Chief Executive Officer Norman Wright says the...

Businessman and owner of Clarendon-based Stewart's Hardware, Byron Stewart, is investing more than $300 million to complete his first real estate...

The Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) is projected to realise a profit for its financial year ending March 31, 2017, the first time in three years, fuelled largely by sales of houses at its latest development, the Vistas in Runaway Bay, St Ann...

Nestle Jamaica will introduce additional products under the Milo line to the local market by mid-2017 as it seeks a bigger slice of the snack market.The conglomerate is aiming for 10 per cent of the local snack market in the next three years and has...