Build-back booster
December 2025
by Janet Silvera/Gleaner Writer
Build-back booster
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has committed J$600 million to help displaced tourism workers repair and rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Melissa as part of a broader public-private recovery programme now expected to exceed J$2 billion. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett made the announcement during a tourism stakeholders’ meeting at Iberostar on Saturday, describing the initiative as one of the most significant worker-support interventions in Jamaica’s tourism history.