The IMF: What We Want to Know Posted on July 19, 2009 by Your Financial FactSheet Jamaica Gleaner: The IMF: What we want to know There is serious talk that Jamaica is going back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and there is hopeful talk that the agency has changed for the better. From past experience, the IMF was not good for Jamaica and no government goes to the IMF unless they see no other way.