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Jamaica’s Economy Slides in 2011 IMF Reports

Jamaica’s fiscal performance deteriorated in 2011 because of delays in the implementation of an agreed structural reform program, a just concluded International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the island has reported. “Recent macroeconomic developments have been mixed,” Luis Breuer, the Fund’s mission chief for Jamaica said in the statement after Read more…

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Haiti Quake Prompts Jamaica Risk Model

Mona GeoInformatics Institute and the Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) have developed an earthquake risk model for NEM Insurance Company Jamaica Limited, says NEM’s General Manager Chris Hind. The model aims to determine whether NEM has adequate reinsurance coverage to cope with a 7.0 magnitude Read more…