A single internal document, obtained for this investigation, does more to settle Jamaica's beach-access argument than either side of it has managed in two years Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Part One of this investigation asked a simple question. When the tourism minister says Jamaica has 70
Free beaches, paid beaches and public responsibility: what the evidence actually shows Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Jamaica is arguing about beaches as though the country has only two choices. Either every Jamaican gets free access to every beach, or private investment and tourism get to decide who passes through
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
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
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
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
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.
