Caribbean disaster reconstruction

A special retrospective spanning the full seventeen-year archive of the Caribbean Property & Investment Review — from the global financial crisis of 2009 through Guyana’s oil era and beyond, to July 2026.

Post-hurricane recovery drives construction cost surges across the Eastern Caribbean as CDB emergency financing flows, insurance markets harden, and winter tourism bookings recover.

The 2025 hurricane season winds down with damage assessments across the Eastern Caribbean revealing a deepening property insurance crisis, disrupted tourism bookings, and urgent CDB emergency financing.

September’s peak hurricane activity tests Caribbean property markets, accelerates the insurance capacity crisis, and prompts emergency government and multilateral financing responses across the region.

Four months after Hurricane Beryl, Caribbean recovery exceeds expectations: Jamaica tourism at 98% of prior year, Grenada rebuilding with CDB aid, and Guyana’s oil output surpasses 600,000 bpd.

Three months after Hurricane Beryl, the Caribbean property market shows resilience: CCRIF pays US$52M to governments, insured losses total US$2.5-3B, and winter tourism bookings track ahead of 2023.

Hurricane Beryl devastates the Caribbean in July 2024 — the earliest Category 5 Atlantic storm on record. Carriacou faces near-total destruction, Jamaica counts J$15B in damage, and insurance gaps are exposed.

Hurricane Beryl makes historic landfall on Carriacou, Grenada on 1 July 2024 as the earliest Category 5 Atlantic storm on record, devastating the Windward Islands and tracking toward Jamaica.

IDB and CDB commit over US$400M to Caribbean infrastructure and housing as post-Hurricane Fiona reconstruction accelerates and Suriname’s IMF programme reaches a key milestone.

Caribbean tourism enters the 2022 holiday season at record booking pace as Jamaica, Barbados and Dominican Republic report peak-season demand while post-Hurricane Fiona reconstruction gains ground.

Six weeks after Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean property insurance market faces 20–35% premium increases as reconstruction needs mount and CCRIF delivers rapid payouts.

Hurricane Fiona devastates Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic’s southwest as Caribbean energy costs hit record highs driven by the Russia-Ukraine war, and construction costs reach 40% above 2020 baselines.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has set all-time records as Hurricanes Eta and Iota devastate Central America and the Caribbean. The compound crisis of pandemic and storms is testing regional resilience to its limits, even as the Barbados Welcome Stamp continues to generate extraordinary global interest.

Two months after Hurricane Dorian’s catastrophic assault on the Bahamas, reconstruction planning is taking shape while property insurance, resilience standards, and Caribbean hurricane risk come under intense professional scrutiny. Other island markets continue to perform strongly.

Hurricane Dorian’s Category 5 assault on the Bahamas — 185 mph sustained winds, $3.4 billion in damage, 70,000 displaced — marks the Caribbean’s worst property disaster since Maria. We examine the full scale of the loss and the shape of the reconstruction challenge ahead.