Jamaica awaits COVAX vaccine delivery in early 2021 as housing demand recovers strongly and BOJ holds rates at historic lows.

Jamaica’s worst economic year in living memory ended with a shot in the arm in Coventry. The GDP fell ten percent. Remittances overtook tourism for the first time. The reform held. And the vaccine arrived on December 8.

Jamaica’s housing market closes a remarkable COVID year with rising prices and record remittances, as the NHT reports year-end results for 2020.

Jamaica’s JLP wins 49 seats in a September 2020 election landslide. The Black Lives Matter movement brings renewed urgency to the Windrush debate in Britain. Priti Patel raises the maximum Windrush compensation to £100,000 in December 2020. COVID-19 disproportionately impacts Caribbean-heritage communities. Our quarterly diaspora update.

Global vaccine approvals in November–December 2020 lift Jamaica’s year-end property outlook as the housing market defies pandemic expectations.

Jamaica’s housing market posts surprising momentum in October–November 2020 as virtual viewings normalise and vaccine news lifts global sentiment.

The hotels were dark, Congress was deadlocked and the world’s vaccine candidates were racing toward a finish line no one could quite see. Jamaica set an October reopening date, won a landslide election and waited.

As Jamaica cautiously reopens to tourists and hurricane season peaks, the property market shows surprising momentum in September–October 2020.

Jamaica’s housing market navigates COVID-19 curfews and construction recovery in August–September 2020, as demand holds firm amid pandemic uncertainty.

Tourism revenue: zero. GDP: down 18 percent. Oil: trading below zero. The worst quarter in Jamaica’s modern economic history — and the fiscal cushion that held.