Finance Minister Dr. Nigel Clarke (centre) presides over the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Investment Corporation (IDB Invest), in Washington, DC in the United States on Monday, March 28 following his election as chairman of the board of governors of the multilateral financing institution and its private-sector investment arm. Bank officials from left are: Reina Mejia Chacon, IDB executive vice president; Marlon Tabora Munoz, secretary of the board of governors; Mauricio Claver-Carone, IDB president; and James Scriven, CEO of IDB Invest.

Amid copious praise for what has been described as Finance Minister Nigel Clarke’s astute handling of the financial affairs of Jamaica during his tenure so far, finance ministers and other members of the board of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, on Monday elected the Jamaican representative to the chairmanship of the bank and its private-sector investment arm, the IDB Investment Corporation, or IDB Invest.

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