Jamaica

February inflation data confirms our forecast for consumer prices in Jamaica, which we expect will reach 8.0% by the end of 2012. The consumer price index (CPI) came in at 7.9% y-o-y... 2012-04-02

After running a relatively loose monetary policy in 2011, we believe that the Central Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) will be unable to cut further in 2012. The bank betrayed a significant growth... 2012-03-06

BMI View: Jamaica's foreign reserves fell to US$2.82bn in December 2011, representing a decline of 5.3% y-o-y. Given the volatility of the country's external account dynamics, we... 2012-02-07

In mid-January, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington announced that the Jamaica Constabulary Force is aiming to cut the murder rate by two thirds by 2030, (bringing it to 12 out of every... 2012-02-07

BMI believes that planned investments of US$780mn at the port of Kingston will increase the facility's efficiency and competitiveness, potentially boosting its throughput, which remained... 2012-01-10

Nearly fifty years after independence, Portia Simpson Miller, a populist who won a landslide election victory in December 2011, proclaimed that Jamaica was to become a republic and... 2012-01-06

After peaking at 8.0% y-o-y in September, inflation came down to 7.1% y-o-y in November in Jamaica. The slowdown in inflation growth occurred on the back of declining inflation of food... 2012-01-06