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Jamaica ends 2015 having sustained three consecutive years of GDP growth, thirteen consecutive clean IMF quarterly reviews, and a property…

In the second half of 2014, a decision taken by OPEC’s Gulf members to maintain production levels as global demand…

Jamaica’s residential property market has appreciated faster in the past two years than the Land Valuation Division’s assessment roll can…

By the summer of 2014, Jamaica’s tourism sector was no longer a story about resilience — it was a story…

Seven years after the global financial crisis interrupted the flow of diaspora capital into Jamaica’s premium residential market, returning residents…

The second quarter of 2014 placed two stories in tension with each other. On the foreign exchange market, the Jamaican…

Jamaica enters the penultimate year of its IMF Extended Fund Facility with a property market that has now maintained positive…

Jamaica entered the first quarter of 2014 with something it had not possessed in five years: a functioning IMF programme,…

Two consecutive years of GDP growth. Two years of clean IMF quarterly reviews. Two years of declining commercial lending rates.…

When Jamaica’s statistical authorities compiled the 2013 GDP figures, the number that emerged — positive zero point two per cent…

Housing schemes planned before the global crisis and held in suspension through six years of economic difficulty are finally delivering…

Three months into the Extended Fund Facility that had cost Jamaica years of painful preparation to obtain, the first evidence…

Developers who sat on approved schemes for five years are now building. NHT loan limits have been increased to match…

On May 1, 2013, the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board approved a four-year Extended Fund Facility for Jamaica worth approximately…

For the first time since the pre-crisis boom, Jamaica’s property market has entered a new year without the shadow of…