Business Leaders Optimistic About Life After Clarke as Finance Minister

L-R: Wayne Chen, Chairman of the Jamaica Employer’s Federation and Phillip Ramson, President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce

Two prominent members of the business community say they are confident Dr. Nigel Clarke is leaving office as finance minister, at a time when the fiscal framework is strong enough to allow his successor to continue moving the economy in the right direction.

Dr. Clarke is set to assume the post of deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund, IMF come October 31.

Chairman of the Jamaica Employer’s Federation, Wayne Chen, says Dr. Clarke has done a lot of work strengthening the country’s fiscal institutions.

President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Phillip Ramson, says Dr. Clarke’s successor will not have to reinvent the wheel.

Phillip Ramson, President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce. They were speaking on Nationwide This Morning on Tuesday.