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Coconut output up 73% since 2021, but drought stalls recovery (opens the original)
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Jamaica’s coconut production has climbed 73 per cent since 2021 on the back of a sustained replanting drive, but current drought conditions threatens that recovery, with one St Thomas grower reporting output down by half this year. “The factory is working two to three days per week now, as against five days per week normally, and we have big orders to fulfil,” Noah Black of Michael Black Farms Limited told the Financial Gleaner. Coconut production islandwide rose 22.7 per cent to 209.6 million n
Omni sees local growth but shrinking oversees sales (opens the original)
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Omni Industries Limited has cut its export ambitions by half and stretched the deadline, telling shareholders it now wants overseas sales to reach 10 per cent of revenue within five years – down from the ‘20 per cent in two years’ target its managing director set out at the last annual general meeting. “The targeted goal that we have over the next five years is to increase that number to 10 per cent of total sales,” Patrick Kumst said at the meeting at The Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston on Sep
Dolphin Cove seats new board members, as buyer takes control (opens the original)
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Dolphin Cove Limited shareholders on Monday approved four new directors nominated by Global Attractions Limited, the Saint Lucia-based entity that agreed in July to acquire a 79.99 per cent stake in the Jamaican marine parks operator from World of Dolphins Inc. The sale price has not been disclosed, but the 79.99 per cent stake is valued at roughly $3.4 billion based on the company’s market capitalisation of some $4.2 billion. The transaction was executed off-market through a private share purch
Ocho Rios cinema picks up patrons after MoBay closure (opens the original)
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Cove Entertainment, which operates a 120-seat theatre at the Island Village Shopping Centre in Ocho Rios, said its attendance has grown since Palace Amusement permanently closed its Montego Bay multiplex. “We have been attracting quite a few of their patrons from Montego Bay and surrounding areas,” said Dr Anthony Clare, head of Cove Entertainment, in a Financial Gleaner interview. “They come right into Ocho Rios.” Dr Clare, a businessman with years of experience in the fast-food sector, took ov
Cal’s seeks court approval to commercialise Westminster Rd properties (opens the original)
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CONTRIBUTED Cal’s Jamaica Founder & CEO, Carlton Watson. The founder of Cal’s Manufacturing Ltd has applied to the Supreme Court to modify covenants on two adjoining residential properties on Westminster Road in Kingston for commercial activities. Its directors acquired the parcels – which connect to Eastwod Park and Red Hills Road in Kingston – for a combined $42 million years earlier. The application for the change of use was published this month in The Gleaner. Carlton Watson, through his com
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