During the debate of the 2025/26 Budget, our Economic Policy Committee developed comments on spending across ministries and public debt for the fiscal year. Click here to see our position.

LANDS’s Economic Policy Committee raised high-level comments on the Government of Jamaica’s 2026/27 Budget, which was passed during the relief period after Hurricane Melissa and during the US-Israeli war on Iran. Click here to read our position.

In January 2020, we submitted our position on the Customs Act to Parliament. We suggested raising duty-free allowances for shipped goods, setting a general flat duty, and maintaining discounts for key industries and for energy-efficient products. We also suggested discussions on the Common External Tariff through the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).

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In January 2020, we submitted our position on the national minimum wage. We held that a minimum wage should be a livable wage and proposed that budgets be published showing how workers are to live on any minimum wage. We also considered (but did not propose) different minimum wage levels for businesses of different sizes.

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In May 2025, we wrote a position statement on the role and ownership of the Jamaica Public Service. We proposed JPS focus on energy distribution, with its generation assets being held in a separate entity. We also proposed an electricity market where JPS remaining the monopoly distributor and electricity generators bid to sell to JPS.

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