KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Holness has warned Jamaicans to be cautiously optimistic as news emerges that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nears. Holness said yesterday that while the IMF agreement is likely to be approved by the end of April, the se...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - IN a press briefing yesterday, Governor Brian Wynter expanded on Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) statement released that morning on the foreign exchange market. In the BOJ's press statement, they had noted that the fall in the exchange rate "had occurred in the context of ext...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - THE GOVERNMENT is beginning to get its critical economic pieces in their place. Last week, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips tabled an expenditure budget that, taking into the account the effects of inflation, projects spending at more than a fifth less than the previou...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - The Business Processing Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ) is among several interest groups scheduled to meet with tax administrators at the Ministry of Finance and Planning today to discuss the likely impact the removal of tax incentives could have on their members...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Some $15 million has been set aside in the 2013-14 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-size hotels through the use of renewable energy. The Caribbean Hotel Energy and Action Project is a ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - The late Margaret Thatcher was impossible to ignore and was one of a handful of leaders who lent her name to an era. This is the view of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart who, in signing the condolence book for the former British Prime Minister, said no one could de...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Dr. Olive Lewin the well known Jamaican musicologist, folklorist and founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers is dead. Lewin, 85, who died on Wednesday, dedicated her life to keeping the nation’s traditional songs alive by researching, collecting and recording anthologies...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - Government is being told to “come clean” with the people since the Central Bank’s call for an about turn in economic strategy reflects what the Opposition was saying all along. That was Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley’s reaction to th...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - THE Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) will soon be presenting a Budget in Parliament for the benefit of the people of Grenada, and though it has been described as a “Holding Budget” until the final Budget comes on stream in December, Mitchell is...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - There is no need for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) ‘rescue mission’ for Barbados. This was the assertion coming from Central Bank Governor, Dr. Delisle Worrell, following a contraction in the economic performance of the first quarter of 2013, and w...