Jamaica Development Chronicle

By the summer of 2022, Jamaica was running two parallel economic narratives simultaneously. In the hotel lobbies of Montego Bay…

By the summer of 2022, Jamaica was running two parallel economic narratives simultaneously. In the hotel lobbies of Montego Bay…

Through April, May and June of 2022, Jamaica found itself doing something that economists rarely see: growing at a healthy…

Jamaica entered 2022 on the crest of its strongest winter tourist wave since before the pandemic — hotels full, flights…

The fourth quarter of 2021 brought Jamaica’s tourism industry to the threshold of the pre-COVID world. October and November arrivals,…

The third quarter of 2021 asked Jamaica’s tourism industry and its public health system to operate simultaneously at levels that,…

The second quarter of 2021 was the quarter when Jamaica’s tourism recovery stopped being a statistical curiosity and started being…

In the first week of March 2021, a nurse at the Kingston Public Hospital held up a syringe for the…

Jamaica’s fourth quarter of 2020 brought a winter season unlike any the island’s tourism operators had managed before: a resilient…

The third quarter of 2020 gave Jamaica three things it needed: a functioning, if partial, tourism industry operating under the…

The second quarter of 2020 was unlike any other three-month period in Jamaica’s modern economic history: a full quarter without…

Jamaica’s first quarter of 2020 began as the island’s finest on record and ended as its most catastrophic in living…

On 3 September 2020, Andrew Holness led the Jamaica Labour Party to an election victory of historic proportions, winning 49…

In the summer of 2019, Jamaica’s hotels were full, its beaches were busy, and its tourism industry was delivering what…

We are writing this account of Jamaica’s second quarter of 2019 in April 2020, sitting in the ruins of everything…