Out of Many, One Future: Jamaica at 64, The Unfinished Symphony of Freedom

Sixty-four years after raising the Black, Green and Gold, Jamaica stands at the crossroads of extraordinary achievement and unfinished dreams. This is the story of where we came from, who we have become, and the nation we still have the courage to build. By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher

Tapia's "Lies" Claim Revives the Daryl Vaz US Visa Mystery, But Washington Still Hasn't Explained Itself

Beyond Government Funding: Can Public-Private Partnerships Save Jamaica's Healthcare System?

An Economic and Policy Analysis Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher On any given Tuesday morning, the corridors outside the imaging departments of Jamaica's public hospitals tell a quiet story of deferred care. A pensioner from Above Rocks waits eleven weeks for an MRI to confirm whether the pain

The Gavel and the Ledger: What Jamaica's Property Auctions Reveal About a Nation Under Pressure

A 79 per cent jump in past-due loans and 46 properties on the August auction block are not a banking crisis. But they are a warning about who is absorbing the cost of Hurricane Melissa, inflation and a stalled recovery. Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Picture a family in

The Week Jamaica's Judiciary Tested Political Power, Anti-Corruption Oversight, and Financial Regulation

By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher There are weeks in a country's legal history that pass largely unnoticed outside courtroom corridors and law firm memoranda. And then there are weeks like this one. Within the span of a few days, three separate strands of Jamaica's appellate

Jamaica's Roads Finally Have an Address:Why the Jamaica Road Register Is a Historic Leap Towards Transparency and Accountability

For most of Jamaica's post-independence history, a road was, administratively speaking, a rumour. A pothole outside a family home in St Elizabeth could sit unrepaired for years, not because no agency had the money, but because no agency was quite sure the road was theirs to fix.

Living on Borrowed Money: Why Jamaica's J$94 Billion Credit Card Debt Should Alarm Every Household

The Cost of Weak Governance: What the British Virgin Islands' $2.5 Million Investment Failure Means for the Caribbean

The NSC's Quiet Admission: Recovery Was Never Just About Roads

What Jamaica's Work Permit Numbers Really Measure

Behind the annual list of nationalities lies a more revealing story about shortages, investment and the limits of the domestic skills pipeline By:Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Every year the same headline appears with the predictability of a tide table. Chinese nationals top the list of foreign workers granted

When Politics Becomes the Story: The NaRRA Voice Notes, Democratic Ethics, and the Cost of Partisanship in Jamaica

The US$220 Million Warning: What Jamaica's BPO Slowdown Reveals About Work, AI and Competitiveness

Local spending in Jamaica's global services sector has fallen by US$220 million in a year. The real question is not how big the loss is, but whether the industry that built modern Montego Bay and Portmore is shrinking or simply changing shape. Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher