After seven years that carried Jamaica from a pandemic to an 11.8 per cent price spike and back inside the band, Richard Byles hands Bank of Jamaica to Dr. R. Brian Langrin — on rate-decision day.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 18, 2026 | One of Jamaica’s most successful and impactful BOJ Governor, Richard Byles, closes his ledger today. Tomorrow, Dr. R. Brian Langrin opens his — and by the end of that first working day, the institution he now leads must tell Jamaicans what it intends to do about a cost of living that has broken through the Bank’s own ceiling.