Jamaican dollar

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Jamaican dollar - the basic unit of money in Jamaica

dollar - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

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The BOJs recent reduction in the reserve requirement on Jamaican dollar deposits will help make policy accommodative but further rate cuts are likely to be needed.

Jamaica,United States : IMF Executive Board Concludes Fifth Review under the Stand-By Arrangement for Jamaica

However Fitch believes it is somewhat mitigated because merchants generally adjust Jamaican dollar prices according to U.S.

Fitch Affirms National Commercial Bank of Jamaica Future Flow Transactions; Outlook Stable

A 350,000 Jamaican dollar reward - it's around PS2,000 - is now on offer on the Paradise island for information that leads to the killers of Keith Murrain.

PS2,000 reward to find the killers of city businessman

In Thailand the pound is worth 18% more than a year ago, while the Jamaican dollar has fallen against sterling by almost 26%.

Get more for your dollar

With the liberalisation of the exchange rate regime in 1991, the Jamaican dollar was supposed to float freely and find its own level, based on demand and supply in the market.

In Ponzi's image/A imagen y semejanza de Ponzi/A l'image de Ponzi

The group's favorable foreign exchange position from remittances, food export businesses and commercial bank operations make it Jamaica's largest foreign currency trader and helped it withstand the 30 percent devaluation of the Jamaican dollar between the end of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

Grace under pressure: in its 88-year history, Jamaican conglomerate GraceKennedy survived many downturns. Now it is aiming for the global stage

The cost of repairing the building had, however, increased dramatically, largely due to rapid inflation and the fall in value of the Jamaican dollar.

Breach of lease can be expensive

The Cayman Islands introduced their own currency, the Cayman Islands dollar, in 1972 to replace the Jamaican dollar as legal tender.

Hot spots: Cayman Islands. (International Insight)

He adds, "When the Jamaican dollar was six to one U.S.

Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee Enjoys Export Boom

In 1992, Butch put up a million dollars of his own cash to help save the Jamaican dollar from collapse.

Islands where love blooms in the sunshine; BILLY SLOAN meets the man who has played cupid to thousands of couples

I asked him about a story in that morning's Gleaner (Jamaica's newspaper of record) which reported that the Bank of Jamaica was considering taking a $24 million loan from the World Bank to defend the declining Jamaican dollar on the foreign exchange markets.

The Vandals' Crown

It was anticlimactic, less compelling to Jamaicans than godfathers like Lester Coke, empty bellies, the unstoppable slide of the Jamaican dollar and the intensifying suffering that Manley could do nothing to allay since he returned to power in 1989.