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The inaugural edition of the Quarterly Jamaica Diaspora & Returnee Update, covering January–March 2024: January remittances open at US$228.3 million, Jamaica’s economy enters 2024 on a broadly positive footing, preparations are underway for the landmark 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference in June, voluntary returnee flows continue from the United Kingdom, and the SAWP opens its 2024 registration cycle.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from July to September 2021, covering a residential sector operating at the peak of the post-pandemic boom, Tropical Storm Grace making landfall on August 17 with significant rainfall and minor flooding, the Delta COVID variant weighing on tourism’s recovery trajectory, a diaspora-fuelled strata apartment market running at historic velocity — and, as this edition goes to press, the Bank of Jamaica raising its overnight policy rate from 0.50% to 1.50% effective yesterday, October 1, 2021 — the first rate increase in thirteen years.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2021, covering a residential sector whose post-pandemic surge had intensified into one of the most active periods in the island’s recorded property history — diaspora capital flowing at record pace, strata apartment launches oversubscribed within hours, the BOJ holding the overnight rate at 0.50% as inflation remained within the target range, and a tourism sector rebuilding carefully as vaccination programmes unlocked gradual international travel recovery.