Jamaica’s calendar year first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.1 per cent, recorded between January and March 2025, was driven by positive out-turns across most goods-producing and services industry subsectors. This was disclosed by Acting Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Leesha Delatie-Budair, during a virtual Economic Statistics Media Stakeholders Meeting on the revision to the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is on track to release the official population count for the 2022 Population and Housing Census by the end of September 2025. This was disclosed by Acting Director General, Leesha Delatie-Budair, who indicated that, “we are currently in our final stages of data validation”. She was responding to a question posed during Thursday’s (July...

The Government is currently finalising the next phase of the Public Sector Modernisation Programme, aimed at enhancing service delivery, streamlining operations, and aligning public administration with Jamaica’s evolving development priorities. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, who indicated that the next phase of reform will prioritise accelerated digitisation to improve accessibility, efficiency,...

The Accountant General’s Department (AGD) is reassuring pensioners and the public that payments for the June 2025 pay cycle were successfully and timely disbursed to 34,106 pensioners on June 25, 2025. The AGD is aware that life certificates for approximately 82 pensioners were not automatically uploaded due to a technical processing error. To address this, the processing of advanced payments...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday (July 1), approved the first supplementary estimates for the 2025/26 fiscal year. The 2025/26 Estimates of Expenditure has now moved from $1,260,048,978 to $1,270,538,106. In her remarks, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, said the estimates will facilitate the allocation of $58.1 billion to ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs). She...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, says the Government’s decision not to renew the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) all-island licence under its current terms does not imply an intention to purchase the utility. Rather, it enables the Government to explore alternative options ahead of the licence’s expiration on July 8, 2027. “It allows us to...

Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Dr. Marlene Street Forrest, is applauding the growing interest of young Jamaicans in financial literacy. “When we get them interested in the stock market at an early age you have them for life, and they can develop careers from this,” she said. The Managing Director was speaking at an awards ceremony for...