A barbed wire fence on Negril’s Seven Mile Beach went viral and was removed within hours. The incident briefly spotlighted a harder fact: only 0.6 percent of Jamaica’s entire coastline is freely accessible to locals.

Negril’s sewage treatment plant, built in the 1990s and upgraded in the 2010s, may have reached the limits of what incremental improvement can achieve. As the resort prepares for its most ambitious expansion in a generation, wastewater infrastructure has become a critical planning and investment question.

A Negril innkeeper calls a coming GCT increase a death knell for small Jamaican hotels, which lack the scale and tax credits large resorts use to absorb new costs. She wants the same phased rollout Jamaica used for its original room tax.

A dormant beachfront site on Negril’s Seven Mile Beach is being converted into 22 boutique condo-hotel units by a Canadian investment group, continuing a pattern of diaspora and foreign capital acquiring and transforming underperforming hotel assets in the resort.

A Westmoreland family has invested $700 million in transforming their 40-year-old beachfront hotel into a 32-room luxury boutique property on Negril’s Seven Mile Beach. In a market increasingly dominated by foreign chains, Footeprints is a bet on Jamaican ownership and smaller-scale quality.

The announcement of Jamaica’s fourth international airport, slated for Negril, marks a transformative moment for the island’s development, with far-reaching implications for…

Negril has operated as one of Jamaica’s most recognised resort destinations while being governed by no one clearly in charge. A 2024 proposal for municipal status could change that, with significant implications for land, planning, and property.

A network of around 30 diaspora investors has acquired and converted four dormant hotel properties in Negril into strata-titled condominiums. The model is reshaping a corner of the resort’s property market and signalling a new direction for diaspora capital in western Jamaica.

A network of around 30 diaspora investors has acquired and converted four dormant hotel properties in Negril into strata-titled condominiums. The model is reshaping a corner of the resort’s property market and signalling a new direction for diaspora capital in western Jamaica.

Negril’s persistent water shortage is rooted in infrastructure that has not kept pace with growth. With desalination and wastewater reuse now being seriously discussed, the question is whether the resort can resolve its most fundamental utility constraint before it becomes a ceiling on investment.