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Caribbean hurricane recovery 2025
Our Year-End 2025 Six-Month Special Edition reviews Caribbean property and investment activity from July to January 2026 — encompassing an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, elevated construction costs, accelerating rate cuts, record Caribbean tourism, and the 2026 outlook.
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.
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.
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.