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Jamaica in 2026 presents a study in profound contradiction. Tourism revenues are approaching historic highs as the island cements its position as the Caribbean’s most recognised brand. The murder rate, while showing a declining trend from the peaks of the late 2010s and early 2020s, remains among the highest in the world. The reparations debate has moved from the margins of diplomatic conversation to its centre. And Jamaica’s relationship with the United States, the United Kingdom, and China is being renegotiated in real time.

Jamaica in 2026 presents a study in contradiction: record tourism revenues alongside one of the world’s highest murder rates; fiscal stability alongside persistent social inequality; growing international profile alongside the unresolved reparations debate.

The escalating war involving Iran, the United States, and regional actors in the Middle East has already begun to reshape…

Kingston, Jamaica — 14 March 2026 Global travel disruptions linked to ongoing conflict in the Middle East may create new…

Three months after Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica secured IMF financing, reopened hotels and began reclaiming lost tourism ground — but mounting Iran tensions and a fragile global economy cast long shadows over the recovery.

Ask ten travel writers where the all-inclusive resort began and you’ll probably hear, “Club Med in Europe.” Ask a Jamaican,…

A Story Shaped by Land, Legacy, and the Quiet Ambition of a Small Island There are places in the world…

In the weeks after Hurricane Melissa made landfall as the strongest storm in Jamaica’s history, an island of three million people faced destruction on a scale that would redefine its economic trajectory for years to come.

The Regional Tourism Shift After Hurricane Melissa The Caribbean tourism landscape is shifting rapidly in the wake of Hurricane…

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on 28 October 2025 as a Category 5 storm with winds of 185 mph — the strongest ever to strike Jamaica. Within days, the island was confronting a humanitarian and economic emergency without parallel in its modern history.

Guardians of the North Coast Few parishes in Jamaica embody the island’s spirit of natural beauty, heritage, and innovation…

In 2021 Jamaica faces a double crisis: a global pandemic that has devastated its tourism-dependent economy and a domestic murder rate that reaches approximately 49 per 100,000 population — among the highest ever recorded. The Andrew Holness government, re-elected in September 2020 with an enlarged majority, is simultaneously managing the pandemic response, negotiating vaccine access, and deploying States of Public Emergency in Jamaica’s most violent communities.

Jamaica’s general election of February 25, 2016 returns the JLP to power under Andrew Holness after four years of PNP government under Portia Simpson Miller. The island records approximately 1,350 murders in 2016, a rate of around 47 per 100,000 that places it among the most violent nations on earth. Tourism is growing strongly toward 2.2 million stopover visitors. And on June 23, the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union — a decision whose implications for the Jamaican diaspora in Britain are immediate and alarming.

Kingston, Jamaica — 15 May 2014 Tourist arrivals from Russia to Jamaica have increased six-fold over the past year, according…

The defining event of the 2010–2011 period is the Tivoli Gardens incursion of May 2010, in which Jamaican security forces entered the West Kingston garrison community to arrest Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, a drug lord whose extradition the United States had been seeking for two years and whose political connections went to the highest levels of the Jamaica Labour Party. The operation kills 73 civilians. By 2011, Jamaica’s murder rate is declining from the 2009–2010 peak, Coke has been extradited and is in American custody, and the December 2011 election returns Portia Simpson Miller and the PNP to power after nearly four years of JLP government.