PM to give update on IMF discussions

Jan 14, 2013

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is expected to update the nation later on Monday “on matters related to aspects of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to an official statement issued here. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and members of her Cabinet are expected to address the media on the outcome of a three-day special Cabinet meeting that ended over the weekend and according to a statement issued later “good and steady progress” had been made “on important measures to be adopted in shaping the 2013/2014 budget”. Prime Minister Simpson Miller has already said it is “necessary” for Jamaica to secure an agreement with the IMF that would “underpin the economic reform while securing the protection of the poor and the most vulnerable in the society.”

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