The Competitiveness Company today (December 22), signed a US$150,000 agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to support and improve the competitiveness and profitability of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises...

President of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), Joseph M. Matalon, has explained that the organization is not in favour of the one percent increase in the General Consumption...

President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Joseph M. Matalon, sees the Government's latest tax package as "necessary", in light of the impact of the global economic crisis...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, says the length of time that the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken, has nothing to do with the competence of...

The Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have brokered an agreement on key elements of a US$1.3 billion Standby Loan Arrangement (SBA) for budgetary support for the economy, Finance...

The total cost of debt servicing (interest and amortization) during 2009/10 is 103% of the Government's total revenue and grants, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Hon. Audley...

Government will have to impose new taxes upon signing of the IMF agreement as a part of the measures to contain expenditure and increase revenue. Speaking on a radio and...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that the pending International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement, will not be a panacea for Jamaica's economic problems. Giving the main address at...

Cabinet has instructed the Chief Parliamentary Counsel to develop new regulations under the Financial Administration and Audit (FAA) Act, to replace the existing Financial Management Regulations of 1996. Minister with...

Fifty eight civil servants have completed training in Results-Based Management (RBM), following two one-week training workshops hosted by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), at its Oxford Road office, New...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, has said that his Ministry is widening the Development Bank of Jamaica's (DBJ) credit window to facilitate lending to farmers...