Published:Thursday | May 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMClaude Clarke
Two and a half months ago when I sat down to write the article 'Economy faces moment of truth', I was not aware that the Government was about to miss the nominal primary surplus target set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).The article was...
Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMClaude Clarke
Nineteen eighty-seven, the year before Hurricane Gilbert struck, Jamaica recorded its highest economic growth rate since the decade of the 1960s. The Planning Institute of Jamaica said the economy expanded by 8.0%. The Bank of Jamaica governor...