Prime Minister Holness Says Government Moving Decisively Towards the Operationalisation of NaRRA
Prime Minister Dr. the Most Honourable Andrew Holness says the Government is moving decisively into the execution phase of its national recovery and resilience strategy, with the operationalisation of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA).
The Prime Minister provided the update last on January 20, 2026, while addressing the 21st Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. He outlined the concrete steps now underway to activate NaRRA as the central coordinating mechanism for post disaster reconstruction and resilience building.
The Prime Minister said, “We are establishing the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, an institution mandated to coordinate post-disaster reconstruction and long-term resilience building. This will be a centre of excellence, a single point of coordination, a platform for public-private partnerships, and we will be reaching out to the private sector in a deliberate way to see how we can partner to get projects, financed and executed.”
Prime Minister Holness explained that NaRRA has been temporarily housed within the Cabinet Office, with Cabinet scheduled to finalize its governance framework, organizational structure, initial project portfolio and legislative agenda. He said an executive officer is currently being recruited to lead the authority, signalling the transition from concept to implementation.
The Prime Minister emphasized that NaRRA will also serve as a practical demonstration of the Government’s commitment to improving speed and efficiency within the public sector, particularly in response to urgent national priorities following climate related shocks.
“We’re going to use the hurricane as the test case for how we can introduce speed into the Jamaican bureaucracy to get these projects that must be done quickly. And we’re going to pivot to growth. There is no better pivot than to do the investments that will induce growth because of the hurricane,” said Dr Holness.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Holness highlighted that the scale of available financing and the opportunity to rebuild Jamaica’s economy in a way that delivers higher growth and stronger resilience require significant collaboration with the private sector.