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Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson, recently released from the hospital following surgery.

JAMAICA | PJ Patterson discharged from hospital after surgery

Kingston, Jamaica, October 21, 2019: Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, was this afternoon discharged from the Tony Thwaites Wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies and is now resting at home.

October 22, 2019
Published in local news

Co-Director of Cornwall Funding Services Limited, Junior Gordon (left), addresses guests during the entity’s 5th Anniversary Awards Ceremony at Sunscape Resort & Spa in Montego Bay, St. James, on Saturday October 19. Listening is business partner, Joe Hylton.

JAMAICA | Bartlett Welcomes Increasing Levels of Foreign Direct Investments in Tourism

MONTEGO BAY, October 21, 2019 - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, says there is no cause for concern by Jamaicans over the increasing levels of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the country’s tourism industry.

October 22, 2019
Published in Tourism

Prime Minister Andrew Holness addressing the ground-breaking ceremony for the Cari-Med Group Distribution Centre in Bernard Lodge, St. Catherine.

JAMAICA | Holness says Gov't committed to fiscal responsibility

KINGSTON, Oct. 17, 2019 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the current business environment in Jamaica is the best it has been in decades as businesses reported profits that exceeded their expectations in the last quarter.

October 17, 2019
Published in Business & Economy

Jamaica's prime minister Andrew Holness as he addressed parliament to request an extension of the State of Emergency

JAMAICA | Parliament extends State of Emergency in three western parishes, Clarendon and St. Catherine

KINGSTON, OCTOBER 16, 2019 - The House of Representatives has voted to extend the states of emergency in the island's three western Jamaica parishes of Westmoreland, Hanover, and St. James, in addition to Clarendon and St. Catherine, for another 90 days.

October 16, 2019
Published in local news

JAMAICA | Standard & Poor's Upgrades Jamaica's Ratings; Outlook Remains Stable

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 28, 2019 - Standard and Poor’s Ratings Agency (S&P), yesterday upgraded the Government of Jamaica’s long-term foreign and local currency rating to “B+” from “B” and affirmed the ‘B’ rating on the short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings. The outlook remains “stable”. S&P Global Ratings also raised its transfer and convertibility assessment to 'BB-' from 'B+'.

September 27, 2019
Published in Business & Economy

JAMAICA | Sustainable Economic Development - Is Jamaica on the right path?

KINGSTON, September 24, 2019 - In spite of all the positive economic fundamentals for Jamaica and the activity in Tourism, Agriculture, Construction and Bauxite Alumina, in particular, our GDP growth rate remains anemic in the 1-2% range.

September 24, 2019
Published in Opinion

JAMAICA | Perception of corruption in Jamaica has increased in the past year

KINGSTON, September 23, 2019 - A half of all Jamaicans surveyed in the last year are of the opinion that corruption in the country has increased and that the government has failed to adequately address the issue.

September 23, 2019
Published in local news

Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, addresses the Sixth IMF High Level Caribbean Forum held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Thursday (November 16, 2017).

JAMAICA | Former IMF Boss Praises Jamaica

KINGSTON, September 22, 2019 - Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has praised Jamaica for the “remarkable” accomplishments under its financial arrangements with the Fund, which have now concluded.

September 22, 2019
Published in Business & Economy

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