Press Release No. 16/350

IMF Mission Concludes Visit to Jamaica, Discusses Modalities of Possible Future Engagement

July 21, 2016

• IMF team holds productive discussions on modalities for future engagement when program expires
• Discussions will continue in August

An IMF staff team led by Mr. Nigel Chalk, Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department, and Ms. Uma Ramakrishnan, Mission Chief for Jamaica, visited Kingston for a short staff visit. After meeting The Most Honourable Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Finance Minister Shaw, Governor Wynter and other members of the economic team, Mr. Chalk issued the following statement today:
 
“We held productive discussions with Prime Minister Holness and his economic team on modalities for future engagement with the IMF when the ongoing EFF expires. It was agreed that growth and job creation, poverty reduction and national security should be the principal objectives of any future engagement, in the context of continued macroeconomic discipline. Discussions will continue during the next EFF review mission, currently scheduled for August.”