Jamaica

IFC issues first bonds in Jamaican dollars

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds Debt

World Bank's private sector division looks to pave the way for more issuers with $15 mln in five-year notes

Fitch improves outlook for Jamaica

Credit Ratings Fitch Ratings Revision

Rating agency points to progress in cutting debt and $1.7 bln in new loans from the IMF

Fitch downgrades Digicel again

Credit Ratings Fitch Ratings Downgrade

Rating agency gives the Caribbean mobile phone company a C after creditors grant a 30-day grace period on a $925 mln bond payment

Digicel gets temporary reprieve from creditors

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds Debt

Caribbean mobile phone company is granted a 30-day grace period that can be extended to 90 days if it reaches a restructuring agreement

Fitch drops Digicel to CC

Credit Ratings Fitch Ratings Downgrade

Caribbean mobile phone company faces "very high credit risk" with a $925 mln bond payment due next month

Jamaica schedules non-deal roadshow

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds Debt

Caribbean country has hired Citi to arrange meetings next week with investors in New York and London

Cemex to use cash for Jamaica investments

Funds Jamaica ESG

Mexican cement company expects to spend $40 mln to increase production by the second half of 2024

CABEI prints social bonds in private deal

International Financial Institutions Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Central American development bank issues $50 mln in 10-year notes in Aussie dollars to Meiji Yasuda Life

Fitch removes positive outlook for Digicel

Credit Ratings Fitch Ratings Bonds

Rating agency says a default is a "real possibility" for the Jamaica-based telco

IFC helps Jamaica with highway PPP

Project & Infrastructure Finance Highways Toll Road

G20's GIF could chip in with financing for the $600 mln-$800 mln project

Digicel to exit Panama as rivals merge

Economy & Policy Telecoms Mobile

Jamaica-based telco says the Más Móvil-Claro tie-up signals the end of competition in the local mobile market

IDB backs economic reforms in Suriname

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) International Financial Institutions Loans

US-based development also grants $260 mln for transmission lines in Paraguay and $100 mln to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica

BMR refinances debt with new loan

Loans Debt Energy

Virgin's renewable energy company borrows $88 mln from CIBC FirstCaribbean in Barbados and NCB in Jamaica

Grupo Piñero raises cash for Caribbean restart

International Financial Institutions IDB Invest Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Spanish tourism group borrows $200 mln from IDB Invest and Banco Popular to reopen hotels in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica

Digicel moves closer to upgrade with asset sale

Credit Ratings Moody's Investors Service Upgrade

Jamaica-based telco plans to pay off 2024 and 2025 bonds with $1.4 bln in proceeds from the sale of Digicel Pacific, according to Moody's