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The Year That Held Its Ground: Jamaica’s Fourth Quarter of 2003 Closed a Difficult Year Better Than Expected, With Tourism Records Intact and the Primary Surplus Defended Against an Oil Shock That Never Fully Relented

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20040

Jamaica’s final quarter of 2003 brought the early winter tourist season, the close of Omar Davies’s most difficult budget year,…

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Summer’s Reprieve: Jamaica’s Third Quarter of 2003 Delivered a Record Tourist Season That Bought the Island Time While the Fiscal Foundations Remained Under Strain

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20040

Jamaica’s summer of 2003 delivered what the first half of the year had promised and the fiscal pressure had made…

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Oil, Inflation, and a Budget Under Pressure: Jamaica’s Spring 2003 Tested Whether Patterson’s Fifth Term Could Absorb the Commodity Shock Without Breaking the Fiscal Framework

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20040

The second quarter of 2003 brought Omar Davies to parliament with a budget that had been constructed before the Iraq…

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The War Tax: Jamaica’s First Quarter of 2003 Opened With Strong Tourism and Closed With an Iraq War That Sent Oil Prices to Levels the Island’s Budget Had Never Budgeted For

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20040

Jamaica entered 2003 with a new government mandate and the tourism industry’s best winter bookings in three years, only to…

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The Fifth Term: Jamaica’s October 2002 Election Gave Patterson an Unprecedented Mandate and the Country a Clear Signal That Continuity Had Defeated the Case for Change

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20030

On October 16, 2002, Jamaicans went to the polls and returned the People’s National Party to office for a fifth…

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The Summer Before the Verdict: Jamaica’s Third Quarter of 2002 Delivered Strong Tourism Numbers and an Election Campaign at Full Boil Ahead of October’s Reckoning

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20030

The summer of 2002 had a dual quality in Jamaica: genuinely good news from the tourism sector, where arrivals were…

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The Fifth Term Campaign: Jamaica’s Spring 2002 Brought a Budget, a Gathering Election Storm, and a Tourism Sector Regaining Its Pre-September Confidence

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20030

By the spring of 2002, Jamaica’s political atmosphere had the electric quality of a country approaching a genuinely consequential decision.…

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The Recovery Takes Hold: Jamaica’s First Quarter of 2002 Brought a Genuine Tourism Rebound and the Opening Moves of an Election Year That Would Define a Generation

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20030

The winter of 2002 arrived in Jamaica with a quality that had been absent since before September 11: genuine optimism…

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Back from the Brink: Jamaica’s Christmas 2001 Saw American Tourists Slowly Return to the Caribbean Even as a War Was Being Fought in Afghanistan and a Year Was Being Written Off

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20020

By October 2001, the United States was at war in Afghanistan and its airports were learning to live with new…

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The Morning Everything Stopped: September 11 Devastated Jamaica’s Tourism Economy and Revealed With Brutal Clarity What It Meant to Depend on Americans Boarding Planes

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20020

On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial aircraft were hijacked in the United States. By the time the…

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The Last Quiet Spring: Jamaica’s Second Quarter of 2001 Brought Budget Season and Softening Bookings Months Before the World Stopped Flying

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20020

The spring of 2001 unfolded in Kingston with a particular kind of anxious normality. Finance Minister Omar Davies presented a…

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Before the Fall: Jamaica’s First Quarter of 2001 Delivered a Decent Winter Season Into a World That Was About to Change Beyond Recognition

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20020

The first three months of 2001 had the quality of a last ordinary season. American tourists filled Jamaica’s north coast…

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The Year That Held: Jamaica’s Fourth Quarter of 2000 Closed a Better-Than-Expected Year for Tourism While Washington Was Too Distracted to Notice

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20010

The United States spent the closing weeks of 2000 in the extraordinary spectacle of a contested presidential election, with hanging…

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High Season Under Pressure: Jamaica’s Summer 2000 Delivered Strong Tourist Numbers Even as an Active Hurricane Season Reminded the Island How Quickly Fortunes Could Turn

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20010

The summer of 2000 was Jamaica’s to lose. An active Atlantic hurricane season kept hotel bookings tense and resort operators…

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The Dot-Com Crash Arrives Late to Jamaica: Spring 2000 Brought Budget Season, Rising Oil Bills, and a Warning About How Exposed the Island Really Was

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20010

When the NASDAQ peaked in March 2000 and then began its historic collapse, the shock reverberated through every economy connected…

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