The year 2021 was a record year for initial public offers (IPOs) with more than 60 companies coming to the stock market to list while cumulatively raising around Rs 1.19 lakh crore. The current year till August saw 18 firms launch their public issues to raise nearly Rs 41,700 crore. That's a lot of money being raised as an increasing number of companies look to move from the private market to the public one.
With more than 200,000 Jamaican students being without electronic devices at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when schools were shuttered and classes largely moved online, the fallout in terms of learning loss is still being assessed by the releva