Jamaica history

An in-depth look at how former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson helped shape modern Jamaica through infrastructure, housing, investment, telecommunications and regional leadership.

A quarter that opens with the budget arithmetic of a small island state in creditable order closes with a milestone…

The government’s first full fiscal year budget, tabled in May 2026, delivered on housing in ways that practitioners describe as…

The first quarter of 2026 delivers what the advance bookings promised: a winter tourist season that rivals the pre-pandemic era…

The new administration’s first full fiscal year budget is approaching, and Jamaica’s property market is watching the preparation with an…

Every year on March 8, the world pauses to mark International Women’s Day, a moment to recognise the achievements of…

GDP grows approximately 2.0% as Jamaica navigates a more uncertain global environment while maintaining its domestic momentumInflation falls toward 4.5%,…

The island closes out a turbulent year on a note of cautious optimism: the Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30…

Jamaica closes 2025 with a property market that has outperformed the most optimistic projections made at the year’s beginning, delivering…

The third quarter of 2025 delivered a tentative reprieve from the acute trade-war anxiety that had defined the preceding three…

Jamaica held its general election in September 2025 and, as in every previous cycle, the property market did not wait…

When you stand on a Jamaican hill, wind brushing across the cane fields, it’s hard to imagine the centuries of…

GDP grows 1.7% — a moderation to a slower but more sustainable pace as the post-pandemic recovery cycle maturesInflation falls…

The second quarter of 2025 will be remembered in the economic histories of every open economy on earth as the…

With Jamaica’s general election now formally in view, the island’s property market has done what it always does in the…