Since January 1982, the Jamaica Windrush & Diaspora Update has published ninety quarterly editions chronicling the life of the Caribbean community in Britain and its ties to Jamaica. Covering forty-four years of history — from the Toxteth riots and the Scarman Report to the Windrush scandal and its aftermath, from Thatcher’s first term to the present — the series constitutes the most sustained quarterly record of Black British life ever assembled. This commemorative edition brings the complete archive together.

A retrospective survey of the Jamaica property market from 2002 to 2026, identifying the structural themes, recurring patterns, and defining events that shaped two and a half decades of property investment on the island — from the boom cycle’s post-crisis gathering, through the hurricane years and the global financial crisis, through the debt decade’s fiscal squeeze and the long recovery, through COVID-19’s border-closure shock, to the post-pandemic surge and the normalisation that the current market represents.

As the Quarterly Jamaica Diaspora & Returnee Update series marks its twentieth anniversary, this special retrospective edition surveys two decades of the forces that have shaped Jamaica’s global communities: from the inaugural 1st Biennial in 2004 through nine conference cycles; from remittances of US$1.6 billion in 2005 to over US$3.5 billion today; through the global financial crisis, Haiti earthquake, Usain Bolt’s athletic dynasty, Brexit and the Windrush scandal, COVID-19, and Jamaica’s own political transitions across five prime ministers. This is the story of twenty years of a diaspora that grew stronger, sent more money home, and fought harder for recognition — quarter by quarter.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2026, covering the BOJ’s hold at 5.50%, inflation returning to 4.3% within target, the Realtors Association confirming 2025 full-year property sales of J$99.3 billion, Vista Montego Bay’s final towers commencing this month, the Unico Hotel opening, RIU’s expansion signal, the NHT’s 41,000+ housing pipeline delivering through the reconstruction economy, and the first signs of a property market recalibrating from crisis to cautious confidence.