Prime Minister Andrew Holness speaking at yesterday’s breakfast briefing on the Wigton Windfarm Limited IPO, hosted by lead broker Mayberry Investment Limited at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston.

THE Jamaican economy grew a year-on-year two per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has confirmed.

Holness made the disclosure while speaking at yesterday’s Wigton Windfarm Limited’s breakfast briefing at the Legacy Suite of the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

He said that he was informed that the Statistical Institute of Jamaica has reported actual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for October – December 2018 at two per cent, compared to the corresponding quarter of 2017.

“I am happy, but I am not clapping,” Holness told the audience, as he closed his address to a large number of interested investors attending the Mayberry Investment Limited event, which focused on Wigton Windfarm Limited’s Initial Public Offer (IPO) scheduled for April 17 to May 1.

“We have had 16 consecutive quarters of growth, all increasing inch by inch. We will get to four, maybe not in five, but we will get to four,” he told his audience.

“We are on the runway, we are picking up momentum. We will take off and soar as this country is blessed to do,” he added.

Holness said the Government was going through a list of its business operations and, as soon as possible, will be packaging a number of other entities, including the Jamaica Mortgage Bank, for similar treatment as Wigton Windfarm.

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