Business October 30 2025

Yaneek Page | Resilience or ruin: the financial reckoning facing Jamaican entrepreneurs

Updated December 9 2025 3 min read

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Residents walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa passed.

After the clouds clear, the wind dies down, and the floodwaters retreat, the real reckoning begins. This is not abstract or distant forecast. It is our neighbours hauling fallen trees and zinc from yards. It is farmers standing in stunned silence before flattened fields, and business-owners sweeping knee-high mud, rocks and silt, wondering how to ever start again.

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