The Bank of Jamaica has advised that new-shaped one and ten dollar coins will go into general circulation as of September 8. The current seven-sided design (heptagonal) of the one...

Executives of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private company of the World Bank, yesterday (Aug 20) paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, a few...

The Governor-General, acting on the advice of the Public Service Commission, has appointed Dr. Wesley Hughes, C.D., currently the Director-General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), to the post...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service and Member of Parliament for North East Manchester, Hon. Audley Shaw, says that any cut in the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) this year,...

Effective Thursday, 20 August 2009, the interest rates applicable to Bank of Jamaica's open market instruments have been reduced by 100 basis points. The revised schedule of rates is as...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, has advised that even as the discussions continue for Jamaica to resume a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, has emphasised that although a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will not be without pain, every effort...

Cabinet will consider the terms on which the Government will negotiate a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its Balance of Payment (BOP) needs, when it meets...

The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) is reporting that stability has returned to the foreign exchange market, enhanced by a lowering of the demand for net foreign currency to facilitate current...

Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ), Hon. Derick Latibeaudiere, has emphasised that the fundamentals of the economy have not been deteriorating, despite the near-term challenges. In fact, he said,...

Inflation for the June quarter was 2.7 per cent, which was 1.3 to 2.8 per cent lower than the Bank of Jamaica's (BoJ) forecast of 4.0 to 5.5 per cent....