Caribbean Economic Report, October 2018
External public debt expands 31% y/y in Bahamas, Barbados targets 6% primary surplus under IMF program, Cayman economy expands 4.0% y/y in Q1 2018, Remittances to DR post double-digit growth YTD to August, Guyana’s reserves continued to decline in July, Jamaica’s economy grew 1.8% in the April-June quarter, Suriname’s interest payments rose 20% y/y in H1 2018, T&T’s government budgets for fiscal deficit of TTD4.1B in FY2018/2019 after missing the deficit target from the mid-year fiscal budget review by TTD2B.