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Stanley Motta Ltd, a subsidiary of the Musson Group of Companies, has created an all-female board of directors. Led by noted businesswoman Melanie Subratie, the board is comprised of seven professionals specialising in a range of fields including law, banking and finance, and business. The other members of the board are: Sharon Donaldson, managing director of […]

Noted Angel Investor, Sandra Glasgow, has welcomed the proposed Sidecar Fund Facility to be implemented by the Government, which will provide equity financing to early-stage, scalable and investment-ready business start-ups. The facility, with technical and funding support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will make $200 million in equity financing available to business start-ups by […]

The Government is working to simplify the process of starting a business, says Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda. He explained that this is being done to ensure that entrepreneurs follow the stipulated procedures and avoid illegal engagements. The Minister was speaking at an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development workshop, held at the Spanish […]

Sandra Glasgow is the Founder and Managing Director of BizTactics™ Limited, a consulting company that nurtures growth-aspiring firms and promotes- best-in-class corporate governance. She is a Founding Member of Jamaica’s first Angel Investor Network, FirstAngelsJA and a Mentor to Caribbean business enablers, incubators, start-up and growing firms.  

Sandra Glasgow, Contributor A 12-person delegation, headed by Julian Robinson, minister of state in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has just returned from a four-day visit to Santiago, Chile, to see first-hand how that country is developing a robust ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation. The World Bank was the sponsor of the […]