Jamaica infrastructure development

Jamaica ended 2011 in the middle of a political transition that had moved with unusual speed: Bruce Golding’s resignation in…

Planning approvals for the first residential schemes in the Highway 2000 corridor arrived this quarter like the confirmation of a…

In a quarter when global financial markets were buffeted by European sovereign debt crises, lingering oil-price pressures from the Arab…

The first quarter of 2011 reminded Jamaica that recoveries built in a globalised world are always hostage to events beyond…

Jamaica closed 2010 in better shape than almost anyone had dared to predict twelve months earlier: the IMF programme was…

After years of construction delays, cost overruns, and false dawns, the Spanish Town bypass extension of Highway 2000 opened to…

On May 10, 2010, an Air Jamaica aircraft made its final revenue service flight after thirty-eight years of operation, and…

February 2010 will be remembered as the month Jamaica simultaneously concluded two of the most consequential financial transactions in its…

Jamaica closed 2009 carrying more debt per capita than almost any country on earth, facing the final stages of negotiations…

After three successive years of storm damage — Emily in 2005, Dean in 2007, Gustav in 2008 — the 2009…

Jamaica’s tourism sector entered the second quarter of 2009 carrying the wounds of the global recession — and then the…

The mathematics of a small-island recession are pitiless in their clarity: fewer tourists mean fewer tips, fewer hotel beds filled…

The year that began with oil at $100 and ended with it at $40 had compressed a decade of financial…

Within the space of three weeks in August and September 2008, Jamaica took a glancing blow from a Category 1…

Through the spring and early summer of 2008, crude oil climbed relentlessly toward what would prove to be its all-time…