Jamaica has announced plans for its second debt swap in three years in the face of a “serious economic crisis”. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is taking measures to reduce its debt, which currently stands at 140% of gross domestic product (GDP), one of the highest ratios in the world. “If this debt is not [...]
Jamaica PM Moves to ‘Correct a Historical Wrong’
January 26, 2013 | Posted by
The Jamaican Government on Thursday undertook to do what Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller described as “correcting a historical wrong”. Delivering the keynote address at the contract-signing ceremony for the relocation of 486 current and former sugar workers, Simpson Miller declared that the time had come to redress the squalor and deplorable conditions these Jamaicans [...]
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Unveils Programs To Aid Jamaica’s Poor
June 6, 2012 | Posted by
DECLARING her Government would focus its policy to support the efforts of the National Housing Trust (NHT), to make affordable housing available to contributors to the Trust, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday unveiled a raft of measures, which she said were aimed at stimulating the economy. Interest rates for the two lowest income bands [...]
