JAMRROC to Provide Oversight for NaRRA

The Government has established a Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee (JAMRROC) to be chaired by Professor Peter Blair Henry.

JAMRROC will provide oversight for the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), an entity that has been mandated to coordinate post-disaster reconstruction and long-term resilience-building.

Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the announcement during his contribution to the 2026/27 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 19).

A son of Jamaica, Professor Henry is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

“He is a vice chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the boards of Citigroup and Nike who has risen to the very pinnacle of international economics and public policy and who brings back to this country a lifetime of intellectual achievement and a personal commitment to Jamaica’s development that has never wavered,” Dr. Holness said.

The Prime Minister said that the search for NaRRA’s Chief Executive Officer is also well advanced.

He said that following an open advertisement both locally and internationally, five candidates have been shortlisted and are going through the interview and evaluation process.

Meanwhile, Dr. Holness said NaRRA will have special powers to accelerate development approvals, as well as procurement, enabling the execution of resilient infrastructure projects at a scale and speed this country has never seen before.

“NaRRA is not only about project delivery; it is about project networking to create new economies in areas impacted by the disaster and to induce the greatest expansion of our economy in the shortest period of time in our history,” Dr. Holness said.