• Economy to grow 1-2% this year - BOJ
  May 20 2011.
  Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is projecting the Jamaican economy to grow this fiscal year by one to two per cent amid an improving global economic outlook, ongoing Government infrastructure investment programmes and continued improvements in the fiscal accounts.

• Jamaica Country Brief
  Development Progress
  Jamaica has been a stable democracy since its independence in 1962, with free expression of opinion, a free press and well-established traditions of democratic participation. In spite of modest long-term growth, Jamaica has made substantial progress in poverty reduction since it began monitoring living conditions in 1988
  

• EPA forum for businesses to take place in Kingston
  Thursday  April 9, 2009
  As the global marketplace becomes more anaemic, the Caribbean Council will next month host a forum aimed at improving private businesses' understanding of how the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will be implemented.

• Jamaica could become regional economic hub under EPA, says minister

February 10, 2009

KINGSTON, Jamaica(JIS): Jamaica could become the business and industrial hub of the Caribbean and the Americas, thanks to the opportunities presented under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed recently between CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU).

• Jamaica signs US$100 million loan agreement with World Bank

January 26, 2009
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Jamaica's Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, and Director of the World Bank's Latin American and Caribbean Management Unit, Yvonne Tsikata, January 23 signed a US$100 million (JA$8.49 billion) Development Policy Loan at the Ministry's offices in Kingston, to provide funding support for the Government's fiscal and debt sustainability program

• Jamaica, TT taking different routes on financial turbulence

Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are traversing different routes in dealing with the financial crisis now flowing across the globe. Source: TT Newsday Newspaper