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.
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.
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
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
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