International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, says her organisation is willing to help the Caribbean countries severely affected by the passage of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. “The IMF stands ready to do whatever it can to help in those situations – in assessing macroeconomic implications, determining financing needs, and providing financial support that would also help catalyse broader...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is imploring motorists to take advantage of the extended traffic ticket amnesty, which will begin on November 27. This is a continuation of the previous amnesty, which ran from August 2 to October 31. “An amnesty is not only a revenue-collection method. The reason why we put in the amnesty is that we...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, arrived in the island on Wednesday (Nov. 15) for the Sixth IMF High Level Caribbean Forum. She was met at the Norman Manley International Airport by a welcome party headed by Minister of Finance and Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw and included Ambassador for Economic Affairs, Dr. Nigel Clarke; IMF Division Chief,...

All Government of Jamaica Pensioners are invited to the Accountant General’s Department (AGD) Pensioners’ Forum 2017. The event will be held at The Mico University College, 1a Marescaux Road, Kingston on Friday (November 17) from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Acting Director for Communications and Customer Relations, AGD, Taneisha Weir Grant, told JIS News that the forum, which is an...

The Government has signed a loan agreement for US$15 million with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to assist with the cost of rolling out the Energy Management and Efficiency Programme (EMEP). The contract was signed at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in downtown Kingston on November 10 by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley...

More than 300 officials are expected in the island for the sixth International Monetary Fund (IMF) High Level Caribbean Forum slated for Thursday, November 16 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Among these are current and former regional heads of government, finance ministers, central bank governors and private-sector representatives, as well as senior staff of the IMF and...

Managing Director of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), Milverton Reynolds, continues to underscore the importance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to the country’s growth, and the entity’s commitment to their ongoing development. Noting MSMEs’ significance in the growth of the global economy, he argues that this is “no less so, here in Jamaica”. He was speaking at...