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Oil plunges from $80 toward $65 per barrel as OPEC’s November meeting approaches without any signal of production cuts. Trinidad & Tobago enters emergency budget discussions. Caribbean’s winter tourism season opens strongly, providing a counterweight to energy sector anxiety. Jamaica’s fiscal improvement continues and Barbados’s tourist arrivals show encouraging signs.

February 2014: the Caribbean winter season is at its most commercially intense, with Trinidad Carnival just 28 days away and Port of Spain’s accommodation market generating peak demand. Jamaica’s mortgage sector is supporting property transactions despite the IMF reform environment. Barbados’s winter tourism season is performing better than expected. CBI programmes are entering 2014 with strong momentum.

October 2013 marks the opening of the Caribbean’s winter tourism season. CBI programmes across St Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, and Grenada are generating growing property investment flows. Trinidad & Tobago’s luxury residential market is strengthening, Barbados faces economic headwinds, and Jamaica’s NHT continues to support affordable homeownership under IMF constraints.

The Caribbean assesses post-Irene recovery and opens the 2011-12 tourism season, with Jamaica still led by PM Bruce Golding and T&T recording strong energy revenues.

Puerto Rico and the Bahamas assess Hurricane Irene’s aftermath as the 2011-12 Caribbean tourism season opens strongly, with PM Golding leading Jamaica and T&T recording strong energy revenue.

Hurricane Irene strikes Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in August 2011, prompting Caribbean property owners and insurers to reassess coastal resilience and coverage.

The Caribbean enjoys strong peak summer 2011 performance while meteorologists track intensifying Atlantic storm activity, with multiple systems developing in the basin.

Caribbean summer 2011 tourism performs well despite Eurozone debt crisis uncertainty as European visitor confidence wavers, while T&T leads regional investment growth.

NOAA forecasts an above-normal 2011 Atlantic hurricane season as Caribbean investors monitor storm risk, while regional investment momentum continues to build.

NOAA forecasts an above-normal 2011 Atlantic hurricane season as the Caribbean monitors storm risk, while investment momentum builds across Jamaica, T&T and the Dominican Republic.

Caribbean property and investment summer outlook 2011 as Arab Spring-driven oil prices boost T&T revenues but strain energy-importing islands ahead of hurricane season.

The Caribbean assesses Trinidad Carnival’s economic impact as Japan’s earthquake and the Arab Spring drive oil prices higher and inject global uncertainty into property markets.

The Caribbean gears up for Trinidad Carnival 2011 and a promising spring investment season, with property markets showing resilience amid global uncertainty.

The Caribbean gears up for Trinidad Carnival 2011 and a promising spring investment season, with property markets showing resilience amid global economic uncertainty.

Caribbean property investment outlook for 2011 as Haiti marks one year since the earthquake, Jamaica pursues IMF-backed reform, and T&T energy revenues fuel construction.