When Finance Minister Audley Shaw rose in the House of Representatives in April 2018 to present Budget 2018–19, the question uppermost in…

Something shifted in Jamaica’s economy in the opening months of 2018, and the data that emerged through the quarter made the shift…

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

A performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has exposed a decade-long financial deterioration at the Students’ Loan Bureau, where non-performing loans surged elevenfold in five years while successive governments pumped billions in publ

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.…