The Government is expressing optimism that the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will make a decision on Jamaica's application for balance of payment support, by the end of...

The Commission of Enquiry into the Collapse of the Financial Institutions in Jamaica in the 1990s, chaired by Hon. Justice Boyd Carey (retired) has stated that, having regard to the...

The Government announced Tuesday (August 25) that increases in allowances paid to its employees, due from April, 2008, will be paid in September. Minister of State in the Ministry of...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have signed an agreement for a grant to fund an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technical Assistance...

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...