VM Group Donates Laptops, Internet Connectivity on Labour Day
Twenty-six students from across the island are the recipients of laptop devices, MiFi modems and data packages donated by the Victoria Mutual (VM) Group as part of the organisation’s Labour Day outreach – Labour for Learning II. Labour for Learning II builds on VM’s donation of digital education kits to students last year, helping students […]
VMIL Recorded Strong Wins in 2020
Excellence in Digitalization & Customer Experience Underpins Difficult Year Victoria Mutual Investments Limited (VMIL) recorded strong wins in 2020, rising above the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic to record a consolidated revenue of $1.88 billion, while implementing a suite of solutions to improve excellence in service delivery and digitalisation. This was announced at the […]
Carilend Jamaica Approves $100M In VM eLoans
Just four months after the launch of Carilend Jamaica by Victoria Mutual Investment Limited (VMIL), the loan facility has hit a milestone of $100 million in approved loans locally, following significant take-up of their VM eLoan offer. VMIL acquired a 30 per cent stake in Carilend, a Barbados-based FinTech company, in 2019. In December last […]
VM Wealth Offers US Equites Trading Option For Local Investors
Jamaican investors are being encouraged to become global investors, by taking advantage of a robust United States stock market in areas such as ecommerce and cloud computing, despite the economic decline brought on by the pandemic. Rezworth Burchenson, CEO, Victoria Mutual Wealth Management Limited, says the company has partnered with Interactive Brokers (IB), a leading […]
Schools Receive Tablets From Prayer Breakfast Donations
Offerings and donations received during and after the 2021 staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), executed in partnership with the Victoria Mutual Foundation, have been used to provide 30 new tablet devices to students at three primary schools. The schools – Tranquility Primary School in Portland; Cairn Currant Primary in Westmoreland; and Caledonia […]
VM Foundation Empowers Youth in Social Enterprise Programme
The Victoria Mutual Foundation has empowered some 10,000 secondary-level students in the areas of financial literacy and entrepreneurship with the provision of high-level financial education content and training, through its partnership with the British Council on the Social Enterprise in Secondary Schools (SESS-J) Programme, which concluded in March. In addition to an investment of some […]
VM Group President & CEO calls for a Culture Transformation
As governments and businesses plot the path to recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Mutual Group (VM) President & CEO Courtney Campbell, has called for transformational thinking and bold moves to ensure that the nation and region will emerge stronger than before. Addressing the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of […]
VM Wealth Offers Free Advisory Service To Help SMEs Retool In Pandemic
Victoria Mutual Wealth Management Limited (VM Wealth), the investment arm of the Victoria Mutual (VM) Group, is urging small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) to take advantage of its free advisory services to retool and restructure their businesses for growth in the post-pandemic era. Devon Barrett, Group Chief Investment Officer and Head of the Strategic Investment […]
VM Foundation Gifts Computers to Local Institutions in Refurbish for Change Initiative
The Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation through a new ‘Refurbish for Change’ initiative, recently donated 130 fully restored computers to educational and community development institutions across the island. Eight early childhood and primary-level schools, three high schools, a service organisation and a church were the recipients of desktop, all-in-one and laptop computers, handed over during a […]