New UK partnership could strengthen Jamaica’s reconstruction programme as government moves to deliver new homes, repair critical infrastructure and build greater resilience against future disasters.

A shoreline protection plan for more than 14 kilometres of the Palisadoes Peninsula has been approved for NaRRA’s work programme, as the government moves to answer questions about how the new authority will be held to account.

Cabinet has approved new climate resilient hospitals for Black River, Falmouth, Hanover and Kingston, with the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority set to help deliver them. No costs have been announced and several sites are still being finalised.

The Government has defended the pay of NaRRA’s chief executive after a row over the authority’s office lease. Builders and the Opposition are now pressing for oversight and published plans for western Jamaica.

Jamaica is strengthening coordination of major investment projects as reconstruction, development and questions over public spending place renewed attention on the Government’s ability to deliver.

Kingston, Jamaica, 7 October 2026 The Government is scaling back the amount of office space planned for the National Reconstruction and Resilience…

The Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee, chaired by Professor Peter Blair Henry, has launched with plans to hold NaRRA to published targets and keep the public informed.

The Government plans to spend US$200 million through NaRRA replacing ageing sewer lines in Kingston and St Andrew, while preparing to divest the overstretched Soapberry treatment plant.

Jamaica’s National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority Act has been welcomed as a vehicle for post-hurricane rebuilding, but the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement warns the legislation could permanently dispossess tens of thousands of coastal fisherfolk and informal landholders.

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026 — Jamaica’s newest and most powerful infrastructure body now has a leader, and his first weeks on…