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One month into the Panama Papers scandal, the fallout for Caribbean offshore financial centres — particularly the BVI and Cayman Islands — is intensifying. Regulators and governments are under pressure to deliver beneficial ownership transparency, with direct implications for Caribbean property holding structures and citizenship by investment programmes.

WTI crude touches $26 per barrel as the oil price crash accelerates, plunging Trinidad & Tobago deeper into fiscal crisis. Caribbean mortgage markets digest the Fed rate hike, while the region looks forward to Trinidad Carnival 2016 on 8–9 February.

Our year-end edition surveys the Caribbean property and investment landscape as 2015 closes: the Paris Agreement sets new climate benchmarks, oil prices collapse toward historic lows, Trinidad & Tobago faces fiscal headwinds, and Caribbean tourism closes out a record year. What does 2016 hold?