JMMB News

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Jamaica, as well as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. A recent study from the Caribbean Public Health Agency and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that prostate cancer accounts for 18% – 47% of cancer deaths in the Caribbean region, making it the leading cause of male cancer deaths and the third leading cause of male deaths overall, in the region. September is marked as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, which is a cancer that only affects men. Against this background, it is fitting that the final episode in the all-male, JMMB Goal Getter Live month-long closed out with a look at men’s health.

Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) has reaffirmed issuer/corporate credit ratings of jmA+ (Local Currency Rating) and jmA (Foreign Currency Rating) on the Jamaica national scale to JMMB Group Limited (JMMBGL). These national scale ratings indicate good creditworthiness of JMMBGL compared to other obligors in Jamaica.

The 7th annual Joan Duncan Memorial Lecture, which was broadcast live on TVJ on September 27, brought into sharp focus, opportunities which abound for entrepreneurs to take advantage of doing business in the digital, global space, particularly in the context of the current pandemic and restrictions placed on operating in the traditional brick and mortar.

JMMB Bank has extended its financing for postgraduate programmes with its most recent partnership with the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS). The bank will offer up to 100% financing for students pursuing the legal education certificate (LEC) programme, which is a requirement for individuals to practice law in Jamaica. The partnership, which takes effect this academic year, comes in response to the ongoing challenge faced by individuals, to fund higher education, as they seek to propel or change their careers.