Executive Chairman of Cool Group of
Companies Joe Issa, who has served the St. Ann business community for decades,
shares the current heightened confidence in the economy, urging businesses to
maintain their optimism and confidence in 2017.
“I
share the confidence felt by the business sector and consumers; it’s a good
feeling, especially when you have more to spend and resources like assets to
put to work and create jobs, especially at a time of low and stable inflation.
“I
want to encourage them and to say to them to trust in their belief that better
will come,” says Issa, who is a member of the St. Ann Chamber of Commerce Past
President Advisory Committee.
Issa,
who was being interviewed at the time about the prospects for the Jamaican
economy for 2017, was referencing the latest Don Anderson poll which shows that
confidence and optimism in the economy have remained high throughout the year.
“This
is really good news for the prospects of the Jamaican economy. I would like to
encourage the business sector in particular, to maintain their optimism and
confidence and to start investing again to grow the economy,” Issa says, while
calling for support for the government’s growth measures which are already
beginning to bear fruit.
Noting
that the current optimism of the business community is a continuation of the
momentum brought by the package of measures leading to and after the February
2016 general election, Issa says, “What we are seeing today is the same kind of
optimism we saw just before and after the general election.”
Research
shows that for the first quarter of last year, a Don Anderson Survey said the
business sector in Jamaica had not been as optimistic about the economy ever
since the announcement of a package of economic policies by the JLP leading to
the general election.
The
survey, which found that optimism had reached a 15-year high in the first
quarter of 2016, was sponsored by the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) and published
in the Business Observer.
Stating
that optimism had increased by 17.6 per cent for the first quarter of 2016,
compared with the last quarter of 2015, the JCC was quoted as saying that “while
the first quarter gains were widespread across firms, the largest gain was in
how firms judged the prospects for the Jamaican economy – surging 57 per cent
from last quarter to result in the 15-year peak.”
The
report noted that “new peaks were also recorded in profit expectations as well
as investment intentions.”
In
emphasizing the similarity of the four quarters of 2016, Issa says confidence
and optimism remains high in all of them, showing a continuation of the
momentum experienced in the first quarter.
According to the latest Don Anderson report, business and consumers
enjoyed the longest ever period of economic optimism, with Anderson saying “these surveys have never before recorded as long
nor as high a sustained period of economic optimism”
Economic confidence among Jamaican firms
is said to have increased to an index of 142.0 for the fourth quarter of 2016,
up from 139.2 in the third quarter, and that it remained at record high levels for all four quarters of 2016, than
at any time over the last 15 years.
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