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Special Economic Zone For Mandeville

February 8, 2024

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Leaders in this south-central town are optimistic that Mandeville will soon have a new commercial belt as the vision of a leading businessman is taking shape on the outskirts of the town centre at Bloomfield. The Kenneth “Skeng Don” Black-led Bloomfield business process outsourcing (BPO) complex, which is estimated to cost $1.2 billion, is being funded by the Development Bank of Jamaica and National Commercial...

EU assists Jamaica With Positioning Port of Kingston For Investments As A Logistics Hub

January 30, 2024

Durrant Pate/ Contributor The Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) held discussions last Friday with the European Union (EU) and European Investment Bank regarding building out the island’s resilient logistics hub in the Port of Kingston. The discussions, which also included the Ministry of Industry Investment and Commerce and several local public and private sector partners, centred around the EU’s potential support to assist Jamaica in attracting investments to...

KWL signs agreement with freight forwarders for contactless service

April 20, 2021

Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL) recently signed a service agreement with two leading freight-forwarding companies to expand access to its Click N Collect contactless pick-up service. KWL signed two separate agreements with Jamaica Freight and Shipping Company Limited and Jamaica Trading Services Limited (JTS) to formalise the arrangements for the clients of both companies to have the benefits of the Click N Collect service. Click N Collect is an...

A view of Seprod's e-commerce platform, Seprodshop.com.

Seprod launches e-commerce platform

February 28, 2021

With social media and the Internet becoming such an integral part in the business landscape, e-commerce has quickly become the ideal way businesses enhance their customer relationship by offering that added convenience factor. Seprod Limited, in an effort to make their products and services more customer-centric, recently launched its e-commerce platform — Seprodshop.com. Seprodshop.com is focused on creating a virtual convenience store experience for customers. “The company decided...

Chorvelle Johnson Cunningham (seated, left), CEO, Sagicor Bank Jamaica, signs the memorandum of understanding that solidifies the public-private partnership between the financial institution and Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC). Looking on are (from left) Michael Willacy, vice president – retail and SME banking, Sagicor Bank Jamaica; Dr Norman Dunn, minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce; Valerie Veira (seated), CEO, JBDC; and Harold Davis, Deputy CEO, JBDC.

Sagicor Bank launches Jamaica’s first public-private partnership to assist local SMEs

February 28, 2021

Sagicor Bank Jamaica (SBJ) and the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form the Sagicor Bank Business Resource Centre to provide free technical, business advisory, marketing, as well as research and project management services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With the JBDC being an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC) mandated to drive growth in the...

American telecoms development firm adds Kingston to its Caribbean submarine cable build out

February 26, 2021

The Caribbean Express, a new multi-billion-dollar submarine cable system being rolled out by American telecoms development firm, Ocean Networks Incorporated, is coming to Jamaica. The Caribbean Express project, an 18-fibre pair subsea cable system linking the state of Florida to Panama, which is just being built out, is also being extended to Kingston. In addition to Jamaica, Caribbean Express will also be rolled out in several other Caribbean...

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