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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, the order of operations. Most small businesses automate the part customers can see and leave the part the money runs through untouched, which is roughly backwards. Here is how to choose the first process, and the unglamorous data work that decides whether any of it holds.
September 4 12:17 PM
Last week, Barbados’s Senior Minister Kerrie Symmonds put some numbers to something anyone who works with small businesses in this region already susp...
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September 4 11:44 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says the ministry will maintain close oversigh...
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September 4 11:12 AM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The Manchester Co-operative Credit Union Limited (MCCU) celebrated academic achievement and youth empowerment as it honoured 25 ...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, the order of operations. Most small businesses automate the part customers can see and leave the part the money runs through untouched, which is roughly backwards. Here is how to choose the first process, and the unglamorous data work that decides whether any of it holds.
September 4, 2026
Last week, Barbados’s Senior Minister Kerrie Symmonds put some numbers to something anyone who works with small businesses in this region already susp...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, what it costs. ChatGPT is now carrying advertising in a growing list of countries, on the free plan and on the cheapest paid one. Jamaica is not on that list yet, but the direction is settled, and it is a good moment to work out which plan your business is actually on
August 28, 2026
Earlier this year OpenAI said ChatGPT had passed 900 million weekly users, and that more than 50 million people paid for a consumer subscription. The ...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, a change announced just days ago: Claude now embeds an invisible watermark in the text it generates, which means AI-assisted work is becoming identifiable — and the businesses with nothing to adjust are the ones that never pretended otherwise.
August 14, 2026
On Tuesday, 11 August, Anthropic confirmed a change this column has been expecting for a while: text generated by its newest Claude models now carries...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, the other side of the ledger: how these tools fail, where your data goes when you press send, and the short list of things that should never be pasted into a chat window.
August 7, 2026
For nine weeks this column has argued that AI belongs in the Jamaican finance office: forecasting cash flow, cleaning a year of receipts, turning spre...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week it answers the question readers ask most, usually with a price page already open: which one should a small Jamaican office actually pay for?
July 24, 2026
By now somebody has told you that your business needs AI. Perhaps it was your accountant, who swears by ChatGPT. Perhaps your IT support company, whic...
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Every month you type the same long instructions into a chat window and attach the same files. This week you write those instructions once, attach the files once, and hand the whole routine to an agent your team can share.
July 17, 2026
Somewhere on your computer there is a note holding your best prompt. You know the one: the paragraph you paste into an AI chat at month-end, refined o...
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The books close on Tuesday; the board deck used to take until Friday. Claude now works inside both Excel and PowerPoint — and because the two add-ins share one conversation, this month’s numbers flow from the workbook into the deck without a single copy-paste.
July 10, 2026
Every finance team has the ritual. The books close, the Excel pack is updated, and then someone loses a day to the deck: copy the chart, paste it into...
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The drawer of crumpled receipts is a Jamaican small-business rite of passage. Point Claude’s new desktop app at a folder of hundreds of receipts and bank exports, describe the mess in plain English, and it reads, sorts, and tidies the whole pile in place — so you keep the judgement and lose the lost weekend.
July 3, 2026
Every small-business owner knows the feeling. It is the week before the accountant needs everything, and the year’s record-keeping is a drawer of crum...
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Interactive dashboards used to mean weeks of work and expensive software. Now a single plain-English prompt — to Claude, Copilot, or ChatGPT — turns a static sales spreadsheet into something a manager can actually click through and explore.
June 19, 2026
Picture your weekly Monday management meeting. The numbers exist, buried in a spreadsheet with 11 tabs that only one person knows how to navigate. So ...
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Cash flow forecasting in minutes, not days — with Claude, even when the JMD/USD rate won’t sit still
It used to take days. Claude, the AI now built into Excel, builds a 13-week cash flow forecast and stress-tests it against every JMD/USD scenario in minutes — even for a one-person finance team
June 12, 2026
Ask any Jamaican importer what keeps them up at night and the answer is rarely sales. It is the gap between the day they pay their supplier in US doll...
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ChatGPT just landed in Google Sheets — here’s why every Jamaican business owner should pay attention
A new spreadsheet-native AI tool turns the most-used business app on into a financial co-pilot. The catch? You don’t need to be a developer to use it
June 5, 2026
Most Jamaican finance teams I work with are not short on ideas. They are short on hours. A senior accountant spends Tuesday cleaning a messy export fr...
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September 4, 2026
PLYMOUTH, United States (AFP) — A judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the high-profile case of an American woman who killed her three young childre...
International News, ...
September 4, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, accordin...
Business, ...
September 4, 2026
Medical Disposables & Supplies Limited (MDS) has become the latest company to have trading in its shares suspended by the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE)...
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September 4, 2026
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The Unity Fellowship Jamaica Ministries (UFJM) recently held its 10th annual community health fair and back-to-school drive in...
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September 4, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange is to leave the country to lead a delegation to the United King...
