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Head of the IMF Staff Mission Team Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan. FILE

Jamaica’s Economic Performance Remains Strong – IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given high marks for Jamaica’s performance under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), saying programme implementation remains strong, with public debt firmly on a downward trajectory. In its recently released Executive Board Review, the Fund highlighted...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (centre), shares a joke with Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry (left), and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Caribbean Country Department General Manager, Therese Turner-Jones, during the 10th PIOJ/IDB Labour Market Forum held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew.

Prepare Workforce for Technologically Driven Future – Turner-Jones

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, addresses the House of Representatives on April 11. At left is Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw.

House Begins Debate on Procurement Bill

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (left), engages in discussion with Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry, during the opening ceremony for the 10th PIOJ/Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Labour Market Forum at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston on Wednesday (April 11).

Greater Discipline Needed to Achieve Economic Independence

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (at podium), addresses the opening ceremony for the 10th Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)/Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Labour Market Forum, which was held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston on Wednesday (April 11) under the theme ‘Enabling Growth and Development: Unlocking the Potential of the Global Shared Services Sector’. Listening keenly (from left) are PIOJ Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry; and PIOJ Community Development Specialist, Antoinette Richards.

Gov’t Looking to Fast-Track Public-Sector Transformation

(From left) Ernani Checcucci, Director, Capacity Building Directorate; Immediate Past Chair, Per Arvid Nordli; Velma Ricketts Walker newly appointed Chair, Capacity Building Committee (CBC); Brenda Mundia, Deputy Director, Capacity Building Directorate; and Daniel Perrier; Vice Chair of the CBC.

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Jamaica Sets Precedence – Customs Head Appointed Chairperson of WCO’S Capacity Building Committee

In a precedence-setting move, CEO/Commissioner of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA), Mrs. Velma Ricketts Walker, has been elected by the membership of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) to serve as Chairperson of the WCO’s Capacity Building Committee (CBC). She has the distinction of being the first female chairperson of the CBC, and the first person from Jamaica and the Caribbean...

Jamaica’s former ‘Sunshine Girls’ netball team captain and conceptualiser of Project GOLD (Guidance, Opportunities and Lessons for Development), Simone Forbes, delivers remarks during the initiative’s launch at the Triple Century Sports Bar, New Kingston on Friday (April 6).

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Strong Support For ‘Project Gold’ Social Intervention Initiative

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, is among several notable persons supporting a programme designed to curtail crime and violence among youth through sports and mentorship, which is being spearheaded by Jamaica’s former ‘Sunshine Girls’ netball team captain, Simone Forbes. The initiative, dubbed ‘Project Gold’ (Guidance, Opportunities and Lessons for Development),...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Finance & Public ServicePrime Minister

2018/19 Financial Year Officially Begins Today

The 2018/19 Financial Year officially begins today (April 1), with the Government projecting to spend $773.6 billion for the year. When former Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, tabled the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure in the House of Representatives in the afternoon on Thursday, February 15, the document outlined that the Government expects to spend $560...

Manager at the Queen’s Warehouse in St. Andrew, Sharole Duffus-Straw (left), points to goods being stored at the facility, which was reopened on March 28. It was closed in 2015. Looking on are: Commissioner of Customs, Velma Ricketts Walker (centre), and Special Adviser at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Viralee Lattibeaudiere.

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Government Reopens Queen’s Warehouse

The Government has reopened the Queen’s Warehouse at 230 Spanish Town Road, in St. Andrew, with more space added to facilitate importers. The complex was closed in 2015 due to concerns by the St. Andrew Public Health Department. It has since been upgraded and cleaned for the benefit of staff and persons who use the facility. “With the reopening of...

Modernisation of the State Specialist, IDB, Camila Mejia Giraldo (left), in conversation with former State Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Senator the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., during a recent media event to highlight a reintegration programme being implemented by the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) III.

8 years ago Finance & Public ServiceNational Security and Peace

IDB Commends CSJP and Ministry for Reintegration Programme

The Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) III and its parent Ministry, National Security, have received commendations from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for its implementation of a reintegration programme that targets youth who have been in conflict with the law. Modernisation of the State Specialist with the IDB, Camila Mejia Giraldo, addressing a recent media event to highlight the...

Newly appointed Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (left), and World Bank Country Manager for Jamaica, Galina Sotirova, exchange signed copies of the grant agreement to help vulnerable fishing communities. The signing took place at the Ministry on Wednesday (March 28).

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Grant to Help Vulnerable Fishing Communities

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and the World Bank have signed a US$4.875 million grant agreement to help vulnerable fishing and fish farming communities in Jamaica to adapt to climate change resilient practices. The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service on Wednesday (March 28) between the newly appointed Minister of Finance...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), with (from left): Dean, College of Business and Management at the University of Technology (UTech), Professor Paul Golding; Acting Head of School of Business Administration at UTech, Celia McKoy, and Deputy President, UTech, Professor Colin Gyles.
Occasion was the annual students’ conference of the School of Business Administration, UTech, at the Jamaica Conference Centre, on March 27.

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Williams says Fiscal Discipline Must Be Maintained

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, says fiscal discipline must be maintained for the country to move forward. She said that as a Government, sustainable growth can be influenced through “policy continuity in areas that are benefitting the people, and through fiscal discipline.” The Minister was speaking at the annual students’...