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Last Updated 10/7/2026
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The Business Observer shares with its readers some of the results of a recent Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association survey results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Jamaica’s productive sector. JMEA Productive Sector COVID-19 Impact Survey Results ` FALLOUT ON THE SECTOR 59 per cent – considering temporary or permanent closure of business. 51 per cent – temporarily reduce staff (14 per cent laid off...
KINGSTON Wharves Limited (KWL) on Monday urged people who arrived in the island recently to observe the 14-day quarantine period before proceeding to the wharf to clear their shipments, saying no storage costs will accrue for the quarantine period. “Those who have not completed the mandatory quarantine period will not be served at KWL facilities. Additionally, the company has been advised by health officials to provide the details...
Two of Jamaica’s major shipping companies now have female chief executive officers. The chairman of both companies, Charles Johnston, recently announced the appointment of Sue-Ann Johnston as chief executive officer of Jamaica Fruit & Shipping Company Limited, and Anna Hamilton as chief executive officer of Jamaica Freight & Shipping Company Limited. Johnston, a fourth-generation Johnston, follows in the footsteps of her great-grandfather, Charles Edward Johnston, who along with...
Some 165 unattached youth recently graduated from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Alternative Livelihoods Skills and Development Project – Blue Economy training programme, during a recent ceremony at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James. The project was undertaken in partnership with the RE School of Education and Technology (RESET) with funding of $34 million jointly provided by the Government and World Bank. The Blue Economy,...
The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is advising importers that starting Monday, August 24, 2020, that all applications for refunds must be submitted online at: www.jacustoms.gov.jm. Previously, applicants were required to manually submit a letter to the Collector of Customs, detailing the circumstances for requesting the refund. Importers are also being reminded that all applications must be made within two years after such overpayment is made, as stipulated in...
Caribbean Broilers has already expended three-quarters of the US$120-million ($18-billion) expenditure planned on its production facility in St Catherine, called The Nest, but says COVID has hampered progress on the project. Still, the poultry company, which trades as CB Group, expects to start rolling out production there by year end. “We are pushing along and the facilities are being built, but we are a bit behind where we...
