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The International Monetary Fund has played a major role in Jamaica’s economic history, from lending programmes in the 1970s and 1980s to the reform programmes of the 2010s credited with stabilising the public finances. Jamaica Homes News covers IMF assessments, agreements and their effects on Jamaica’s debt, interest rates, growth and housing sector.

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Seventeen Years: Jamaica’s Spring 2026 Closes a Chronicle of Transformation and Opens the Question Every Generation Must Answer for Itself

By Jamaica HomesJuly 23, 20261

The second quarter of 2026 is where this chronicle ends, though Jamaica’s story does not. The spring season tracked toward…

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The Threshold: Jamaica’s First Quarter of 2026 Brought Another Record Winter Season and the Debt Target That Had Defined a Generation Within Reach

By Jamaica HomesJuly 20, 20261

The first quarter of 2026 carried the particular emotional weight of a milestone approached. Jamaica’s winter tourism season was tracking…

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One Year In: Jamaica’s Fourth Quarter of 2025 Closed a Record-Breaking Year and Marked a Government That Had Passed Its First Test

By Jamaica HomesJuly 17, 20262

The fourth quarter of 2025 was the PNP government’s first anniversary reckoning, and the ledger was more positive than even…

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The Fifth Record: Jamaica’s Summer 2025 Delivered Another Tourism Milestone While the New Government Found Its Feet

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20261

Jamaica’s summer of 2025 produced the fifth consecutive record tourism season, a number that was becoming as reliably annual as…

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The First Test: Jamaica’s New Government Met Its Budget Moment in Spring 2025 and Chose Continuity Over Revolution

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20260

Jamaica’s second quarter of 2025 was the moment that every new government must eventually face: the confrontation between what was…

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The Handover: Jamaica’s First Quarter of 2025 Delivered a Record Winter Season and the Most Consequential Transfer of Power in a Generation

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20260

The first quarter of 2025 compressed an extraordinary amount of Jamaican history into ninety days. The winter tourism season closed…

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The Year the Record Became Routine: Jamaica’s 2024 Closed With Its Strongest Christmas in Memory and a Government Facing Its Final Reckoning

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20250

The final quarter of 2024 was Jamaica at its most confident in decades. Tourism arrivals for the full year confirmed…

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The Summer That Held: Jamaica’s 2024 High Season Delivered Record Tourism and Rate Relief Even as the Election Clock Began to Tick

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20250

Jamaica’s third quarter of 2024 delivered what had become, by now, an almost expected combination: tourism arrivals pushing toward another…

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The New Normal: Jamaica’s Spring 2024 Showed an Economy That Had Stopped Surviving Crises and Started Building on Stability

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20250

Jamaica’s second quarter of 2024 was, by the standards of the preceding decade, uneventful. There was no fiscal emergency, no…

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Into the Upgrade: Jamaica’s Early 2024 Moved From Crisis Survivor to Investment Destination as the Rate Cycle Eased and Tourism Set Another Record Pace

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20250

The first quarter of 2024 found Jamaica in a position that would have been unrecognisable to the policymakers who had…

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A New High-Water Mark: Jamaica’s 2023 Ended With a Tourism Record, Falling Rates, and a Debt-to-GDP Ratio That Would Have Seemed Impossible a Decade Ago

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20240

When the final tourism count for 2023 was assembled, it confirmed what the data had been suggesting all year: Jamaica…

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The Easing Begins: Jamaica’s Summer 2023 Brought the First Rate Cut in Two Years and a Tourism Season That Rewrote the Record Books

By Jamaica HomesJuly 15, 20240

By the summer of 2023, Jamaica’s economic policy establishment was doing something it had not done for two years: cutting…

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Back in the Band: Jamaica’s Spring 2023 Brought Inflation to Target and the First Talk of Rate Cuts Since the Crisis

By Jamaica HomesApril 15, 20240

Somewhere in the second quarter of 2023, Jamaica’s headline inflation crossed back below 6 per cent and returned within the…

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The Record Falls: Jamaica’s Winter 2023 Smashed the Tourism Benchmark While Inflation Finally Came Home to Target

By Jamaica HomesJanuary 15, 20240

The first quarter of 2023 delivered something that Jamaica’s tourism industry had been chasing for four years: a definitive confirmation…

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The Year That Held: Jamaica’s 2022 Closed With Near-Record Tourism, Falling Inflation, and a Growth Story That Defied the Odds

By Jamaica HomesOctober 15, 20230

When Jamaica closed the books on 2022, the numbers told a story that few had believed possible when the year…

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