A central bank's income statement records what its mandate cost, not how well it performed. Jamaica's business pages need a different scoreboard — and Jamaica's own law already supplies one.
MONTEGO BAY, September 13, 2026 - On 11 September the Financial Gleaner published a headline that travelled considerably further than the story beneath it: “Bank of Jamaica runs $6.9b loss.” Within hours it was moving through WhatsApp stripped of its article, carrying the only meaning a headline of that construction can carry — that somebody at Nethersole Place has been losing the nation's money.
