Dean Jones | Jamaica’s hurricane recovery questions are getting harder to ignore
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Finance
May 14, 2026
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Jones, founder of Jamaica Homes
The release of the Auditor General’s audit into Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa relief response has triggered uncomfortable but increasingly unavoidable questions about how the country manages disaster recovery, public trust, institutional capacity, and national resilience.
The figures alone were enough to provoke public concern. By February 23, 2026, only J$26.2 million of the J$1.44 billion donated for Hurricane Melissa recovery had reportedly been spent, roughly 1.8 per cent of the funds received.
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