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Pay your bills online!

May 31st, 2015

It took me a while to embrace Internet banking. At first I feared that giving information of a sensitive nature on the Internet would be too big a risk to take. I thought of identity theft and scammers who would no doubt be able to use my information to empty my account of all my [...]

Bringing consumers the market online!

May 27th, 2015

I loved going to the market as a child. There was always something exciting to see or do. The cacophony of sounds was a delight as the vendors at their stalls were calling out prices in a sing song voice to the customers who participated as they bargained with them. I suppose to my mother [...]

Financing tertiary education!

May 22nd, 2015

You have collected your high school certificate as you wore your cap and gown. You were so proud that you had passed all your subjects. So what’s next on the plan for your life? For a number of young ambitious Jamaicans, the next step is to matriculate to a tertiary level facility that will enable [...]

Passport Pressure!

May 19th, 2015

Do you remember the days of the blue passport? That was the passport with which most Jamaicans would use to travel overseas in the early eighties. It had a distinctive light blue colour and had several features including a comments section at the back of the book where you could also add your address and [...]

The cost of Jamaica’s ‘free’ education.

May 13th, 2015

Is free education a reality in Jamaica? Well, recently a parent from a prominent high school in Kingston, showed me a text message sent from the school to parents which stated that only those students who have paid their school fees will be allowed to sit internal examinations in June. That means that a student [...]

Should the minimum wage be increased?

May 9th, 2015

Have you ever tried imagining how much better life in Jamaica would be if everyone was able to survive on their salary? Persons would lose that desperate look as they try to decide what necessary items they will have to live without! There would be less crime as persons would not feel that they had [...]

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