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.

Hurricane Earl tracks near Antigua, Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands as a powerful Category 4 storm in August 2010, testing Caribbean property resilience amid an active Atlantic season.

Caribbean summer tourism peaks in 2010 following BP well capping in July, with T&T’s new Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar setting a fresh economic agenda and regional investor confidence recovering.

The BP Deepwater Horizon well is capped in mid-July, relieving Caribbean tourism anxiety, while T&T’s new PM Persad-Bissessar sets her economic agenda and summer bookings recover.

Trinidad and Tobago makes history as Kamla Persad-Bissessar becomes the country’s first female Prime Minister, while the Atlantic hurricane season opens and BP’s oil continues to flow.

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill triggers Caribbean tourism anxiety over perception damage, while Trinidad and Tobago braces for a historic general election just weeks away.

Caribbean property markets show genuine recovery momentum in spring 2010 as Jamaica’s IMF programme begins and the Dominican Republic leads the region in tourism and FDI.

Caribbean property and investment markets show early recovery signs in early 2010 as Haiti earthquake reconstruction draws regional solidarity and Jamaica signs a new IMF arrangement.