EPOC Communiques
Click below to view, in detail, all published EPOC Communiques.June 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The new Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement (PSBA) with the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) was approved by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 11, 2016*. The GOJ met the indicative programme conditions for the...
May 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The new Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement (PSBA) with the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) was approved by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 11, 2016. The EPOC met on May 16, 2017, and reviewed the latest...
April 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The EPOC met on April 11, 2017, and reviewed available results up to end-February 2017. Based on performance at end-February 2017: Jamaica is on target to meet monitored quantitative performance criteria and indicative targets under the new...
March 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The EPOC met on March 14, 2017, and reviewed available results as at January 2017. Based on performance at end-January 2017: Jamaica is on target to meet monitored quantitative performance criteria and indicative targets under the new...
February 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The EPOC met on February 7, 2017, and reviewed available results as at December 2016. Based on performance at end-December 2016, Jamaica has met, or is on track to meet, all 12 quantitative performance criteria and indicative targets under the...
December 2016: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
EPOC signed a new MOU on November 21, 2016,to inter alia monitor and report on the macro-fiscal targets under the PSBA. EPOC, therefore continues its journey of oversight of fiscal, monetary and financial sector imperatives and indicators, underpinning the PSBA.
January 2017: Update on 3-year IMF Precautionary Stand-by Arrangement (PSBA)
The EPOC met on January 16, 2017, and reviewed available results as at November, 2016. Based on performance as at the end of November, 2016, Jamaica remains on track to meet the December, 2016, quantitative performance criteria and indicative...