Jamaica infrastructure development

By the final months of 2000, the infrastructure decisions that had been deferred through Jamaica’s crisis years were arriving all…

Six months into the competitive telecommunications era, Jamaica’s infrastructure story in the middle of 2000 was less about drama than…

After a decade in which a single company controlled every telephone wire and every international call, Jamaica entered the year…

At midnight on December 31, 1999, the lights in Jamaica stayed on. The planes kept flying. The ships kept moving.…

September 1999 brought Hurricane Floyd — an enormous Category 4 storm that devastated the Bahamas before turning north up the…

The millennium is five months away, and Jamaica’s infrastructure managers are discovering something that the physical nature of concrete and…

When Prime Minister P.J. Patterson formally announced the Highway 2000 project in early 1999 — a private-sector-financed toll highway linking…

Four years. That is the span of economic contraction that Jamaica closes out as 1998 draws to an end —…

In the last week of September 1998, Jamaicans watched the weather maps with the particular attention of a people whose…

The image that will define this quarter in Kingston’s transport history is a new bus — clean, air-conditioned, bearing the…

Four years of economic contraction would test the resolve of any nation, but Jamaica begins 1998 with something the statistics…

As 1997 draws to a close, Jamaica’s third consecutive year of economic contraction leaves behind a paradox: a physical infrastructure…

The third quarter of 1997 was not the quarter in which Jamaica turned a corner. Corners require fiscal space, investor…

The second quarter of 1997 opened with Jamaica formally in an economic contraction, its financial sector under the management of…

On January 29, 1997, the Government of Jamaica formally established the Financial Sector Adjustment Company Limited. FINSAC, as it would…