Trinidad Carnival 2019 (February 4-5) delivers a strong economic performance as the twin-island republic’s culture economy fires on all cylinders. The Caribbean’s peak winter tourism season reaches its zenith across Jamaica, Barbados, and the Dominican Republic, while Barbados’s IMF reform narrative gains definition and Guyana’s first-oil countdown intensifies.

As 2019 gets underway, the Caribbean investment community assesses a landscape shaped by Barbados’s new IMF programme, rising US interest rates, continuing post-hurricane reconstruction, and the imminent prospect of Guyanese first oil. Jamaica’s macroeconomic success provides the region’s most encouraging template.

Caribbean property markets hold steady as the 2018 hurricane season reaches its peak, with unaffected islands sustaining strong tourism momentum. Barbados PM Mottley’s three-month-old administration accelerates economic reform discussions while the region reflects on its improved preparedness versus the 2017 catastrophe.

June 2018: Caribbean investment outlook brightens as post-Irma/Maria recovery gathers pace, Barbados welcomes new PM Mia Mottley, Guyana oil excitement builds, and rising US interest rates begin to test Caribbean mortgage markets.

Caribbean investment outlook strengthens as post-Irma and Maria reconstruction drives a regional construction boom. Barbados welcomes its new Mottley government with an ambitious economic reform agenda, while Guyana’s oil development draws global attention.

As Caribbean spring tourism delivers a strong performance across unaffected islands, Barbados stands at a historic political crossroads: a general election must be called within weeks, with PM Freundel Stuart’s DLP facing Mia Mottley’s BLP in what polls suggest will be a decisive contest. Meanwhile, reconstruction across Irma and Maria territories continues.

Four months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Caribbean property market enters 2018 in sharply bifurcated condition. Jamaica and Barbados report exceptional winter season performance while the reconstruction territories continue their long recovery. The insurance market is repricing hurricane risk across the entire region.

Caribbean property markets close a strong summer 2017 season with tourism records and investment confidence, even as meteorologists track a potentially catastrophic hurricane approaching the Lesser Antilles. Edition 107 of the Caribbean Property & Investment Review.

Summer 2017 has delivered a robust Caribbean tourism season and a strengthening property market — but as this edition goes to press, forecasters are tracking a rapidly intensifying hurricane that poses a grave threat to the Leeward Islands.

The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season has been quieter than forecast through August, providing relief for Caribbean property and tourism markets. Guyana’s oil investment momentum continues to build post-Payara discovery. Panama Papers regulatory aftershocks continue to reshape Caribbean offshore structures and CBI programmes.