Rough Economic Seas Ahead Posted on December 28, 2008January 9, 2009 by Your Financial FactSheet Jamaica Gleaner: Finance Minister Audley Shaw is predicting that 2009 will be “one of the most challenging in the history of modern Jamaica”…”We expect that all sectors of our economy will be impacted to a greater or lesser extent by the deepening global recession that has been triggered by the international financial crisis,” the finance minister says in a statement.