Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Honourable Nigel Clarke, while speaking at the annual Jamaica Securities Dealers Association Breakfast Forum held on February 13, 2019 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel emphasised the Government of Jamaica’s (GOJ) policy thrust of deepening financial markets. The Minister stated that the social and physical infrastructural needs of Jamaica cannot all be financed from the revenues, and so the GOJ has an interest in the development of efficient capital markets.
With Jamaica ranking at number 134 in terms of cross-border trading in the World Bank’s 2019 Doing Business Report, the Jamaica Customs Agency is taking additional steps to boost its efficiency related to the clearance of goods during the busy Christmas season. This is….
The Jamaican economy continued to record growth during the second quarter of the fiscal year from July–September 2018.