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Scotia Investments says it leads Jamaica’s collective investment schemes market
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Scotia Investments says it leads Jamaica’s collective investment schemes market
March 11 09:56 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Scotia Jamaica Investments Limited (SIJL) said it has taken the leading market share position among service providers in Jamaica’...
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
March 11 09:03 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — As the world marks the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer, the spotlight is firmly on the women whose hands nurture the soi...
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
Alicia Dunkley-Willism senior reporter, dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11 08:11 PM
“Conflicting commitments” on the part of two defence attorneys representing one of the accused in the ongoing Klansman Gang trial on Wednesday forced ...
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
March 11 07:53 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) will host an online seminar this week aimed at helping businesses manage statutory ...
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
March 11 07:22 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president Keith Wellington says proceeds from ticket sales at the ISSA Grace...
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Parkmere Group Investment supports ongoing hurricane relief in St James
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Parkmere Group Investment supports ongoing hurricane relief in St James
March 11 07:16 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — When Hurricane Melissa struck the island last October, Tastia Stephens, Account Manager for Parkmere Group Investment was in Monte...
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Texas woman exonerated in baby’s death freed after 22 years
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Texas woman exonerated in baby’s death freed after 22 years
March 11 06:54 PM
TEXAS, United States (AFP) — A woman who spent 22 years in a United States (US) prison over the death of a 10-month-old boy in her care was set free W...
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CARPHA strengthens public health support for Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
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CARPHA strengthens public health support for Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
Carlysia Ramdeen, Observer Online reporter, ramdeenc@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11 06:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr Lisa Indar, says the regional health body is continuing to s...
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Finsac Commission to recall Dr Davies
JIS 
September 1, 2011
THE Finsac Commission of Enquiry is expected to recall former Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Omar Davies when it resumes sitting. This was confir...
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Blythe hints at Finsac insider trading
July 22, 2011
FORMER Minister of Water and Housing Dr Karl Blythe has suggested that some of his political colleagues may have benefited from "insider trading", in ...
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‘A grave injustice’ – Blythe says Finsac was necessary, but
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‘A grave injustice’ – Blythe says Finsac was necessary, but
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
July 14, 2011
Blythe: Sale of bad debt to JRF an unkind cut FORMER water and housing minister Dr Karl Blythe, while admitting yesterday that the creation of the Fin...
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Crawford makes fresh appeal to Finsac for leniency
JIS 
July 13, 2011
THE Financial Sector Adjustment Company (Finsac) says it is awaiting advice from the Attorney General's Department on how to respond to a new appeal f...
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‘Were it not for God, I would have been dead’ — Crawford
JIS 
June 7, 2011
FORMER Century National boss Don Crawford yesterday blamed orchestrated threats against his life for his exile in the United States since 1996. Crawfo...
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Davies poses Finsac questions to Shaw
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Davies poses Finsac questions to Shaw
BY INGRID BROWN Senior Staff Reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 22, 2011
DR Omar Davies, the Opposition spokesman on finance, is challenging Finance Minister Audley Shaw to declare what was his personal debt to the Financia...
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JRF CEO says company being used as scapegoat
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JRF CEO says company being used as scapegoat
May 17, 2011
CHIEF executive officer of the Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation Inc (JRF) Jason Rudd says that his company, which acquired the Financial Sector Adjus...
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Attorney wants Blythe to testify at Finsac Enquiry
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Attorney wants Blythe to testify at Finsac Enquiry
May 17, 2011
ATTORNEY Anthony Levy has formally requested the Finsac Commission of Enquiry to seek to have former minister of water and housing, Dr Karl Blythe, ap...
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Finsac Enquiry commissioners asked to subpoena PJ
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Finsac Enquiry commissioners asked to subpoena PJ
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 14, 2011
ATTORNEY Anthony Levy, who is representing members of the Association of Finsac'd Entrepreneurs (AFE), on Friday called on Finsac Enquiry commissioner...
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There were too many institutions in the market — Hylton
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There were too many institutions in the market — Hylton
May 11, 2011
Says operations of some organisations to be blamed for ’90s meltdown FORMER managing director of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (Finsac), Pat...
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Lawyer challenges Finsac Commission’s decision on witness questions
May 10, 2011
ATTORNEY Anthony Levy yesterday challenged the Finsac Commission's decision to allow questions to witnesses only through an attorney, and offered his ...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
My bank bungled and Finsac took hard line, says businessman
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer staff reporter fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 27, 2011
BUSINESSMAN Aubrey Smith yesterday charged that bungling by his bank and a hard-line approach by the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (Finsac) resu...
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Former NCB exec laments non-co-operation of Finsac
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Former NCB exec laments non-co-operation of Finsac
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 19, 2011
FORMER managing director of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jeff Cobham yesterday charged that many of the local businesses that failed during the ...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Chen-Young fears for his safety
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
AFTER 13 years in financial exile, former Eagle Group chairman Paul Chen-Young still fears he could be physically hurt if he returns to the island. Ch...
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‘They destroyed me’
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‘They destroyed me’
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
Paul Chen-Young says he was selected for personal and vindictive treatment DR Paul Chen-Young, whose Eagle Group of companies collapsed and was taken ...
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Chen-Young: Finsac abrogated its responsibility
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2011
Finsac has turned off many investors, says Chen-Young FORMER Eagle Group chairman Paul Chen-Young yesterday said that the Financial Sector Adjustment ...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Farmer says ’90s high interest rates quadrupled $320,000 debt
April 12, 2011
ST Catherine farmer Llewellyn Bailey claims that unfair treatment by his creditors and his inability to continue paying his lawyer — after high intere...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Justice Downer is legal adviser, not a Finsac commissioner
JIS 
March 31, 2011
CHAIRMAN of the Finsac Commission of Enquiry Worrick Bogle explained Tuesday that retired Supreme Court Judge Justice Henderson Downer is not a member...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Jim Parkes still in shock over Mutual Life’s collapse
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 29, 2011
JIM Parkes, former head of Mutual Life, is still in awe that the Jamaican Government in 1998 could have shut down the 154-year-old insurance company, ...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Opposition wants Finsac lawyers at enquiry
March 28, 2011
THE Opposition People's National Party says it is concerned that the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (Finsac) has no legal representation at the s...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Where are Finsac’s lawyers?
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 17, 2011
Absence from enquiry into finance sector collapse raises concern ATTORNEYS at the ongoing enquiry into 1990s financial meltdown have raised concerns a...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Finsac nightmare – Real estate dealer tells how $10m loan grew to $113m
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 15, 2011
Poyser suggests debt write-off from JRF properties sale LASCELLES Poyser tried hard yesterday to put on a brave face as he related how a $9.8-million ...
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