Jamaica infrastructure development

By June 2004, the steel frame of the new Sangster International Airport terminal was visible from the approach road into…

When the earthmoving equipment began positioning at the Sangster International Airport construction site in early 2004, it marked a transition…

When the year-end accounts were tallied in the infrastructure ministry’s conference rooms in late December 2003, the ledger showed more…

Across the Caribbean, the 2003 hurricane season delivered some of its most destructive energy to Bermuda and the Carolinas, leaving…

The months after a landmark infrastructure opening are always revealing — the moment when the ribbon-cutting euphoria gives way to…

In a single quarter, Jamaica achieved what had seemed improbable through most of the preceding decade: a new toll expressway…

The final quarter of 2002 brought Jamaica something it had not experienced in some years: a convergence of infrastructure momentum…

With the general election looming and the first section of Highway 2000 drawing tantalizingly close to its opening date, Jamaica…

The Jamaica that went to the polls on October 16, 2002 was a country in the middle of the most…

In the opening months of 2002, with a general election drawing near and the first stretches of Highway 2000 becoming…

The winter tourism season of 2001–02 arrived in Jamaica with none of the confidence that the sector had been building…

On the morning of September 11, 2001, as the world watched in horror from its television screens, Jamaica’s tourism economy…

The three months between April and June 2001 produced an object lesson in how infrastructure, when it finally arrives in…

On the morning of April 1, 2001, in a country where hundreds of thousands of people had never owned a…

In the closing weeks of 2000, as Jamaica reviewed what the year had delivered against what it had promised, the…