Businessuite Media Group International

31/10/2026

Cover Stories

The Revolving Door: Why Jamaica’s Financial Sector Is Running Out of New Talent

A case study on how recycling the same executive bench across competing institutions is commoditizing products, diluting culture and inflating compensation without producing the game-changers the sector needs before 2030.

Jamaica’s financial sector has a leadership bench problem, and it is largely self-inflicted. For more than two decades, the C-suites of the country’s banks, insurers and investment houses have drawn from the same closed circuit of executives, who move laterally from one institution to a direct competitor, carry the same playbook with them, and recreate the culture of their former employer in their new one. The result is a sector where products and services look increasingly alike, where compensation rises faster than performance, and where the talent capable of genuinely repositioning a company is, by most informed accounts, in short supply.

https://businessuiteonline.com/the-revolving-door-why-jamaicas-financial-sector-is-running-out-of-new-talent/

25/10/2026

Corporate Earnings

Knutsford Express: Property Arm Outgrows Coach-and-Courier Business as Fuel Costs Squeeze Q1 Profit.

What a Transportation vs Courier split would give investors.

Here is the catch in the question. KEX’s segment note combines transportation and courier in one line, and the quarterly report gives no courier revenue, courier profit or parcel volumes. The financials can tell shareholders which segment is growing faster. They cannot tell them which service is. That gap matters for several reasons:

Revenue is up 5.5% and assets are up 13%, but the profit story sits in a segment note most shareholders will skim past. It shows a small property business growing faster than the core, and it shows what Knutsford still doesn’t tell investors.

25/10/2026

Businessuite 50 Power and Influence

Businessuite Women March 2027 Digital Edition – The Power 100 Jamaica’s Most Powerful and Influential Businesswomen

An Invitation to Corporate Jamaica and Caribbean — Advertise in the 2027 Power 100

The 2027 Power 100 Digital Edition is the most widely read, most cited and most shared female business leadership document produced annually in Jamaica. It reaches the C-suite, the boardroom, the investment community and the next generation of Jamaican business leaders simultaneously — in a single, premium digital publication distributed to over 100,000 readers.

We are offering two advertising formats at accessible, fixed rates. Booking deadline: December 30, 2026. Artwork deadline: January 15, 2027. Publication: March 2027.

https://businessuiteonline.com/businesuite-women-2027-digital-edition-the-power-100-jamaicas-most-powerful-and-influential-businesswomen/

24/10/2026

Beyond the Ranking: Defining the 2027 Caribbean Business Agenda

There is a natural temptation, when producing a publication such as the Businessuite Top 100 Caribbean Companies & CEOs, to make the ranking the story. This year, we have chosen to make it the beginning of a much bigger conversation.
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The companies and CEOs featured in this edition represent an important measure of where Caribbean business stands today. They reflect enterprise, leadership, investment, innovation, resilience and economic contribution across a region that continues to operate in one of the world’s most complex business environments.

But the more important question is not simply who is leading Caribbean business today. It is: what will it take for Caribbean companies to lead tomorrow? That question is the reason for this edition.

https://businessuiteonline.com/businessuite-2026-top-100-caribbean-companies-and-ceos-digital-edition/

11/08/2026

Business Insights Investments & Strategy

A Family Affair: The Inside Story of Agostini’s Takeover of Prestige Holdings

What made this deal immediately distinctive — and immediately controversial — was not the valuation arithmetic. It was the ownership architecture underneath it. Both Agostini and Prestige Holdings are majority-controlled by the same private holding company: Victor E. Mouttet Limited (VEML). VEML is 100 per cent owned by the Mouttet family. At the time of the offer, VEML held 48.5 per cent of Agostini and 52.9 per cent of Prestige Holdings. When connected companies GNM Properties and JNM Properties — linked to Christian Mouttet and his brother François Mouttet — are added, the Mouttet family’s effective ownership of Agostini reaches 57.8 per cent. Christian Mouttet was, at the time, Chairman of both AGL and PHL, and Chairman and CEO of VEML itself.

https://businessuiteonline.com/a-family-affair-the-inside-story-of-agostinis-takeover-of-prestige-holdings/

27/06/2026

27/06/2026

As Regional Programme Director, she will carry direct ownership of the full ELEVATE100 Leadership Series Architecture — six events running from March through May 2027, culminating in the Catalyst Awards Gala Finale in June — as well as the compilation and presentation of the Businessuite Women Power 100 State of Business Report, a flagship publication with direct relevance to development finance partner reporting, including to the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Union.

https://businessuiteonline.com/businessuite-women-appoints-ambassador-dr-anita-davis-defoe-as-regional-programme-director-of-elevate100-the-2027-catalyst-awards/

20/06/2026

The Caribbean’s Hidden Giants: Why Businessuite’s New Private Company Ranking Changes Everything

Many of the Caribbean’s most successful, innovative, fastest-growing and most entrepreneurial companies are privately held enterprises. They employ thousands of people, generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, expand across borders, create new industries and build family wealth across generations. Yet because they are private, they often remain invisible to the wider business community.

The result is a significant intelligence gap.

Investors cannot easily identify emerging market leaders.

Financial institutions lack systematic visibility into future growth companies.

Potential partners struggle to discover outstanding businesses operating beyond their own territories.

And perhaps most importantly, many exceptional Caribbean entrepreneurs never receive the recognition they deserve.

The launch of the Businessuite Top Caribbean Private Companies Ranking seeks to change that.

Permanently.

To learn more click this link
https://businessuiteonline.com/the-caribbeans-hidden-giants-why-businessuites-new-private-company-ranking-changes-everything/

17/06/2026

The Honourable Fayval Williams, Minister of Finance and the Public Service for Jamaica

First woman to hold Jamaica’s constitutional Finance Minister role; first to open the Budget Debate; Wharton MBA, CFA, Harvard BA; oversees J$1.26T budget; CFATF Chair; Hurricane Melissa reconstruction mandate. Scores at Tier 1 level — sits in Tier 2 due to public sector categorisation; her index score is the highest in this tier.

To view the full list click this link
https://businessuiteonline.com/businessuite-women-%c2%b7-2026-power-influence-100/

16/06/2026

Kamina Johnson Smith Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade, Jamaica

Manages Jamaica’s diplomatic & trade relationships globally; multilateral forum participation; diaspora engagement; former CARICOM lead; one of the most internationally recognisable Jamaican political figures.

To view the full list click this link
https://businessuiteonline.com/businessuite-women-%c2%b7-2026-power-influence-100/