LOLC Group records Rs. 4 b 3Q profit, Rs. 45 b for 9 months
February, 16, 2021
LOLC Holdings PLC (LOLC) releasing its nine-month results has recorded a PAT (profit after tax) of Rs. 45 billion after adjusting for corporate tax on a PBT (profit before tax) of Rs. 48 billion.
The group recorded Rs.4 billion as profits for the third quarter, a healthy performance considering the COVID-19 pandemic situation negatively affecting the financial services and leisure sector directly and other sectors indirectly. The profit attributable to equity holders was Rs.3.42 billion up from Rs.1.46 billion a year ago.
The Group’s Financial Services Sector contributed Rs. 3.5 billion as profits, and these results were achieved allowing a strong level of risk mitigating provisions amounting to Rs. 23 billion (Rs. 10.3 billion in 2019) for bad and doubtful debts being made, over and above the regulated levels. Conservative provisioning was made considering the potential risks arising from the pand
A view of a section of the Catherine Estates Housing Development along Dunbeholden Road in St Catherine.
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) Jamaica is set to deliver the first 50 homes in the Catherine Estates Housing Development before May.
Launched in June 2020, the Catherine Estates Housing Development is a joint-venture partnership between CHEC and the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) and is expected to provide 1,650 low-income houses.
The development will have one bedroom and studio duplexes.
A one-bedroom house in the Catherine Estates Housing Development
CHEC is currently working in phases three and four of the development along Dunbeholden Road in St Catherine. The first 50 homes will consist of 30 one-bedroom houses and 20 duplexes.
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An Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreement between PMD AssetCo Limited and the China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) is to give birth to the construction of a new shipyard that is set to begin in March this year at the Takoradi Port.
PMD are the project developers while CHEC will be in charge of the civil construction works on the facility which is estimated to cost $49 million.
The project will be the first private shipyard in the country and is expected to be completed in 18 months.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, the Managing Director of PMD AssetCo, Mr Stanley Raja Korshie Ahorlu, said when the shipyard was completed and fully operational it would employ about 1,000 people and make the Takoradi Port the preferred port in West Africa.
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The first investment within the Colombo
Port City will commence with the one billion dollar Colombo International
Finance Centre (CIFC) Mixed Development Project.
The momentous agreement between Browns
Investments, the strategic investment arm of the LOLC Group, and China Harbour
Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) was signed this morning in the presence of
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka Qi
Zhenhong.
Attracting foreign direct investment is a
key priority for our Government, and this landmark project is a strong
indicator that Sri Lanka is now back in business,” Prime Minister Rajapaksa
said. We invite investors from around the world to explore the multitude of