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Caribbean & Central America - December 2019

Trinidad rejects IMF as Jamaica graduates with flying colours

Jamaica’s Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) terminated on 10 November with the IMF praising Jamaica for its “exemplary commitment” to the IMF programme for over six years and across two governments. By contrast, on 25 November, Trinidad & Tobago’s finance minister Colm Imbert explained why the country had rejected the possibility of entering into a structural adjustment programme with the IMF, the likely terms of which he castigated as “stale old measures”.

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