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In the bid to weed out corruption within the Government service, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has moved to re-establish and strengthen three key agencies under his purview. These are the Financial Investigations Division (FID), Revenue Protection Division (RPD), and Public Accountability Inspectorate (PAI). Addressing a special consultation organised by the Customs Department today (Jan. 27)...

Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, has said that the Government, since assuming office in September 2007, has successfully negotiated some US$951 million in loans from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development (IDB), and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Speaking at the signing of a fiscal and sustainability development policy loan agreement with the World Bank at the Ministry...

Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS), has joined other Jamaican companies operating corporate offices in Florida, with the opening of its Miami office last month. The office, located in the County Square Shopping Centre in Miami Gardens, is the first overseas branch of the VMBS Group of Companies in the United States of America. With a staff complement of three, VMBS...

The proposed Public Accountability Inspectorate (PAI), is expected to become fully operational no later than April 1, Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, has announced. The Minister, who was speaking at a loan signing between the Government and the World Bank at the Ministry on January 23, said that the "finishing touches" for the functioning of the agency are...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has called on senior managers, commissioners and other key personnel in the tax administration system, to more diligently carry out their responsibilities under the law. He noted that the reform of the tax system, now being undertaken, is designed to address the wanton evasion of taxes and instances of corruption, and...

Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, and Director of the World Bank's Latin American and Caribbean Management Unit, Yvonne Tsikata, today (Jan. 23) signed a US$100 million ($8.49 billion) Development Policy Loan at the Ministry's Heroes Circle offices in Kingston, to provide funding support for the Government's fiscal and debt sustainability programme. This programme is aimed at containing and...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, said that the Government's economic policies have the objective of growing the economy out of debt and positioning the country on a path to sustained development. The Minister was speaking to a nine-member delegation from Tanzania, including Minister of Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, today (Jan. 21) at the Ministry's National...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Don Wehby, has suggested several solutions to the problem of debt, which he says is crippling the economy. Senator Wehby, who was the guest speaker at a forum put on by Generation Two Thousand (G2K), the young professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party, at the Petroleum...

Jamaica and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have signed the largest loan commitment ever been made to Jamaica at any one time. The loans totalling US$329-million exceed the total loan disbursements made to Jamaica by the IDB for more than ten years. The three loan agreements were signed this morning (Jan 19) at Jamaica House by Prime Minister Bruce Golding,...

President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, has emphasised the importance of community involvement in preventing crime and violence. Addressing the opening ceremony for the Third Inter-American Forum on Violence and Prevention and Citizen Security, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, today (Jan. 19), Mr. Moreno noted that "citizens cannot remain on the sidelines when crime...

President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Moreno, has lauded the Devon greenhouse project, as one that can help to meet world food demand. "In the next 30 years, the world is going to need 50 per cent more of the food that we currently produce, and if you look at the areas of the world where this can...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, and President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, today (Jan. 19) signed three loan agreements totalling US$329 million during a ceremony at Jamaica House. The Prime Minister told journalists, technocrats, and officials, that the loans will provide financial support for the private, and education sectors, as well as the Programme of Advancement through...