Janiel McEwan is a Jamaican economist, researcher, writer, and commentator focused on economics, policy, and social development. Founder of The McEwan Index, he translates data into insight on Jamaica and the Caribbean region and beyond.
Jamaica's next economic argument is not really about the 1970s. It is about what kind of state the country can afford, and what kind of state it cannot afford to be without. On a Thursday night in Greendale, St Catherine, Mark Golding told a room of party faithful
Kingston and Washington have signed a modern legal framework for military cooperation, not a basing deal or a mutual defence pact, and the details that matter most are the ones neither government has yet made public. Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher On August 20, 2026, the Governments of Jamaica and
Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher August 17 is not simply another date on Jamaica's regulatory calendar. It is the day conservation stops being a suggestion and becomes an enforceable order. From that Monday, households and businesses across seven parishes, Kingston, St Andrew, St Thomas, St Mary, Portland, St
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