Jamaica closed 2017 with its seventh consecutive tourism record, a primary surplus maintained well above programme targets, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that…

In early September 2017, Jamaica watched Hurricane Irma — one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded — pass north of…

The first full quarter of life after Jamaica’s IMF Extended Fund Facility posed the question that economists had long debated: would the…

In May 2017, Jamaica completed the sixteen-quarter IMF Extended Fund Facility that had governed its economic life since 2013 — every review…

Jamaica closed 2016 with GDP growth of approximately 1.4 per cent — the island’s strongest annual expansion since before the global financial…

As Jamaica’s IMF Extended Fund Facility moved into its penultimate quarterly review, the economy it had reshaped was performing at its strongest…

When Finance Minister Audley Shaw rose in parliament to present Jamaica’s Budget 2016-17, the fiscal community was watching for signs of slippage.…

On the night of February 25, 2016, Jamaica’s voters delivered the closest general election result in the island’s modern history, handing the…

Jamaica closed 2015 with GDP growth confirmed at approximately 0.9 per cent — the third consecutive year of expansion since the nadir…

Jamaica’s peak summer season delivered another record quarter for hotel arrivals in 2015, offering the clearest evidence yet that the island’s IMF-backed…