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

Edition 185 publishes just four days before Trinidad Carnival 2011 (March 7–8), capturing the economic excitement across Port of Spain. Also covered: Caribbean spring investment momentum, elevated Arab Spring oil prices, Jamaica tourism performance, and Barbados luxury market activity.

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.

Edition 186 surveys the Caribbean investment landscape as 2011 opens: Haiti earthquake recovery one year on, T&T’s energy economy, Jamaica’s IMF fiscal reform programme, and the approach of Trinidad Carnival on March 7–8.

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.

Edition 187 reviews the close of 2010: Hurricane Tomas recovery across St Lucia, St Vincent and Barbados; Freundel Stuart’s first weeks as Barbados PM; Trinidad & Tobago under Persad-Bissessar; and Haiti’s reconstruction one year on. Plus the 2011 Caribbean investment outlook.

Edition 187 of the Caribbean Property & Investment Review covers the final weeks of 2010: Hurricane Tomas reconstruction in St Lucia, St Vincent and Barbados, the transition to PM Freundel Stuart, Trinidad & Tobago’s energy-led growth under PM Persad-Bissessar, Haiti reconstruction progress one year after the earthquake, and the investment outlook for 2011.

St Lucia and St Vincent begin Hurricane Tomas reconstruction as the Caribbean holiday season 2010-11 opens, with Barbados’s new PM Stuart consolidating his leadership and property markets ending the year cautiously.

Barbados mourns Prime Minister David Thompson who died in office October 23, as Hurricane Tomas devastates St Lucia and St Vincent in the final days of October.

The Caribbean’s most active 2010 hurricane season in years renews focus on property insurance resilience, while T&T tables its 2011 budget and investors pivot to year-end planning.