Jamaica pandemic recovery

Between 2022 and the present, Jamaica achieved economic milestones that would have seemed improbable a decade earlier — record tourism earnings, historic debt reduction, and near-full employment. Yet beneath the headline figures, working Jamaicans found themselves increasingly priced out of formal property markets, as diaspora dollars denominated in US currency reshaped the island’s real estate landscape with an efficiency that neither policy nor planning had anticipated. This is the decade Jamaica bet simultaneously on digital currency, artificial intelligence, and a special economic zone — and discovered that institutional ambition and market reality are rarely on the same timetable.