The Government will be scaling up public investment in the Second Supplementary Estimates for 2020/21, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (October 6). Minister of Finance...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tabled the Second Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure for 2020/2021 in the House of Representatives on October 6. It...

President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. William Warren Smith, says the institution has been instrumental in the transformation of the region, with US$2.5 billion disbursed between 2011 and...

Bank of Jamaica announces its decision to hold the policy interest rate (the rate offered to deposit-taking institutions on overnight placements with Bank of Jamaica) unchanged at 0.50 per cent...

Effective October 1, 2020, all taxpayers submitting Returns for Guest Accommodation Room Tax (GART) using the RT01 Form will be mandated to file online, via the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ)...

The Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) has embarked on a media campaign to heighten public awareness about the increased coverage limit for accounts held at deposit-taking institutions (DTIs). Effective August...

Jamaica received official development assistance (ODA) funding worth US$140.9 million during 2019 from international development partners (IDPs). This was 36.2 per cent lower than the sum received the previous year,...

Chairperson of the Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC), Myrtle Halsall, says that all JDIC-insured financial institutions remain solvent and adequately capitalised, despite the economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....