Business Private sector to be assisted in trade negotiations
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the New Economy Project (NEP) have offered to work with the local private sector to assist its participation in the trade negotiation process. 
LoJ shares transferred to Accountant General
The Life of Jamaica shares (LoJ) have been transferred to the Accountant General but the state-owned Financial Sector Adjustment Company Ltd. (FINSAC) will continue to act as agents for the sale.
Positive growth expected for economy
The Director General at the Planning Institute of Jamaica has said that if growth trends observed during the last quarter of the 2000/01 fiscal year continued, then the economy was poised to record its strongest growth since the mid-1990s. | 
