GRENADA  Debt treatment -      November 19, 2015

Supporting agreements with the international institutions

IMF programme supported by an arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) approved on June 26, 2014

Download the IMF report: ECF Document

Total external debt of the country

$610 million as of December 31, 2014

$11 million of which being due to Paris Club as of November 1, 2015

Amounts treated

$8 million, of which $8 million being rescheduled

Accorded treatment

Rescheduling of the external debt public debt, following the IMF' approval of an ECF, and the assurance by Paris Club creditors to contribute to its financing

Categories of debt treated

Treatment of the arrears as of October 31, 2005

Treatment of the maturities from Novembre 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017

Repayment profile

Treatment under Classic terms

  • repayment of non ODA credits over 15 years, including 8 years of grace
  • repayment of ODA credits over 20 years including 7 years of grace

Specific provisions

Debt swaps

On a voluntary and bilateral basis, the Government of each Participating Creditor Country or its appropriate institutions may sell or exchange, in the framework of debt for nature, debt for aid, debt for equity swaps or other local currency debt swaps:

(i) all Official Development Assistance loans;

(ii) the amounts of outstanding credits, loans and consolidations, other than Official Development Assistance loans, up to 20% of the amounts of outstanding credits as of October 31, 2015 or up to an amount of 5 million SDR, whichever is higher

Good will clause

Paris Club creditors undertook to consider specific weather events that may impact Grenada’s ability to service its debt by embedding into the agreement a first-ever “hurricane clause”.

Comparability of treatment provision

In order to secure comparable treatment of its debt due to all its external public or private creditors, the Government of Grenada commits to seek promptly from all its bilateral and commercial external creditors debt reorganisation arrangements on terms comparable to those set forth in the Agreed Minutes, while trying to avoid discrimination among different categories of creditors. Consequently, the Government of Grenada commits to accord all categories of bilateral and commercial creditors -and in particular creditor countries not participating in the Agreed Minutes, and private creditors- a treatment not more favourable than that accorded to the Participating Creditor Countries.

For the purpose of the comparison between the arrangements concluded by the Government of Grenada with its creditors not listed in the Agreed Minutes on the one hand, and with the Participating Creditor Countries on the other hand, all relevant elements shall be taken into account, including the real exposure of the creditors not listed in the Agreed Minutes, the level of cash payments received by those creditors from the Government of Grenada as compared to their share of Grenada’s external debt, the nature and characteristics of all treatment applied, including debt buy backs, and all characteristics of the reorganized claims and in particular their repayment terms whatever forms they take and in general the financial relations between the Government of Grenada and the creditors not listed in the Agreed Minutes.

Cut-off date

June 30, 2004

Organisation of the session

The meeting was chaired by Mr. Guillaume CHABERT, Co-Chairman of the Paris Club.

The head of the debtor country's delegation was Mr. Timothy ANTOINE, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

Participating creditors
  • FRANCE
  • RUSSIAN FEDERATION
  • UNITED KINGDOM
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Observers
  • GERMANY
  • ITALY
  • JAPAN
  • NETHERLANDS
  • NORWAY
  • SPAIN
  • IMF
  • World Bank