In Other News…

• Jamaica’s Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr Nigel Clarke, has said that the country’s new series of banknotes will be ready to be released to the general public by mid-June, with a publicity campaign to prepare the public ready to roll out imminently.

The new all-polymer series is being printed on SAFEGUARD® by De La Rue, and will feature more modern designs, new portraits and a holographic stripe on each denomination, viewable from either side of the note.

• The US Mint has commenced its 2023 American Women Quarters (AWQ) programme with the release of the first two coins in this year’s series.

Launched in January, the first coin of the year features Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman pilot as well as the first African American to earn an international pilot’s licence.