Live within our means - Rowe

Less than a month before the Government tables the 2015-2016 Estimates of Expenditure, Financial Secretary Devon Rowe has signalled that Jamaica will continue to walk a tightrope in terms of spending under the four-year extended fund facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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