The Annual General Meeting of Scotia DBG Investments Limited will be held on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, 81 Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5.

Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited (SLJ) and Capital and Advice Limited, S.A., an investment services ompany incorporated in Costa Rica, executed a joint venture agreement on February 2, 2011 to explore the insurance businesses and insurance related services in certain countries in the Central American Region. Under the terms of the agreement, SLJ will provide certain technical expertise, administrative services and operating systems to support the operations. Capital and Advice, with its experience in banking and other financial services as well as commercial operations, will provide marketing know how and local support to the joint venture. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval in the respective territories of operations.

With reference to the dividend declaration of ten cents per share to be paid on March 4, 2011, Berger Paints Jamaica Limited has advised of an amendment to the record date from February 2, 2011 to February 4, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 2, 2011.

In Trinidad Cements Limited`s published interim financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, shareholders and other stakeholders were advised that the Group was undertaking a debt restructuring exercise.

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National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCBJ) has advised that Mr. Donovan Lewis has resigned as director of NCBJ, NCB (Cayman) Limited, NCB Capital Markets (Cayman) Limited and NCB Remittance Services (Cayman) Limited, effective January 1, 2011.

The Board of Directors of Lascelles, deMercado & Company Limited has declared an interim dividend of $5.50 per share and a special interim dividend of $5.50 per share, both payable on January 13, 2011 to ordinary stockholders on record as at January 3, 2011. The ex-dividend date is December 30, 2010.

Jamaica Broilers Group Ltd has advised that it considers immaterial (for purposes of disclosure, in accordance with the rules of the Jamaica Stock Exchange,) the borrowings from the IIC of US$2M approved by the IIC in August 2010 and disbursed to the Company in September 2010. The loan made by IIC to the Company is a working Capital loan facility and was obtained in the normal course of business. The latest loan of US$2M from the IIC takes the Company`s borrowings from the IIC back to the approximate US$7M level of the original loan approved in June 2009.

The Board of Directors of Kingston Wharves Limited has declared an interim dividend of $0.09 per share payable on January 7, 2011, to shareholders on record as at December 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 13, 2010.

The Board of Directors of The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited has declared a dividend of $0.0467 in respect of the Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares. The dividend is payable on December 31, 2010 to shareholders on record as at December 10, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 8, 2010.

The Board of Directors of the Jamaica Stock Exchange has approved a quarterly dividend of 9.91% per annum on Redeemable Variable Rate Preference Shares for the period September 1 to November 30, 2010 in the amount of $0.0494 per share. The dividend is payable on December 8, 2010, to shareholders on record as at December 3, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 1, 2010.