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Crime Stoppers helped secure significantly more arrests in 2025, with total arrests rising by 38.2 per cent to 76, according to…
Road fatalities may be falling, but Jamaica’s culture of reckless driving is still claiming far too many innocent lives. It’s time…
Minister Robert Montague has warned that Jamaicans who occupy Crown land after June 9, 2026 will be permanently barred from government settlement programmes, as the state escalates its crackdown on illegal land occupation and organised land fraud.
Minister Robert Montague has warned that Jamaicans who occupy Crown land after June 9, 2026 will be permanently barred from government settlement programmes, as the state escalates its crackdown on illegal land occupation and organised land fraud.
OPINION
Published: 7 July 2026 Jamaica must now focus on…
Architecture In Spotlight
JAMAICA Diaspora
With remittances accounting for roughly 20 percent of Jamaica’s GDP and diaspora buyers providing critical demand at every price point from residential lots to luxury villas, the connection between overseas Jamaicans and the property market is structural, not incidental.
GLOBAL ANALYSIS
See MoreKingston, Jamaica, 29 June 2026Bankrate’s mortgage rate variability index, a measure of how much loan offers differ from one lender…
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Diaspora Dollars and NHT Rate Reform: Jamaica Homes Monthly Housing & Development Review — July 2026
The July 2026 edition of the Jamaica Homes Monthly Review examines surging diaspora investment, the NHT’s landmark rate cuts for frontline workers, construction momentum across a 41,000-unit pipeline, and the complex forces shaping Jamaica’s housing market at the mid-year point.
Since January 1982, the Jamaica Windrush & Diaspora Update has published ninety quarterly editions chronicling the life of the Caribbean community in Britain and its ties to Jamaica. Covering forty-four years of history — from the Toxteth riots and the Scarman Report to the Windrush scandal and its aftermath, from Thatcher’s first term to the present — the series constitutes the most sustained quarterly record of Black British life ever assembled. This commemorative edition brings the complete archive together.
Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 1 | Published 3 July…
As the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season intensifies, Caribbean property markets face spiralling insurance premiums, constrained housing supply and record tourism momentum. A comprehensive monthly analysis for investors, developers and homeowners across the region.
Jamaica’s vacation rental sector enters the second half of 2026 with a long-overdue licensing framework advancing through the Ministry of Tourism, while Airbnb reports Caribbean as a standout global growth region, Tax Administration Jamaica intensifies enforcement, and housing affordability concerns push Parliament toward action.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept in property markets. Globally, AI is already…
Family & Relations
For years, many property owners in Jamaica enjoyed a market that seemed almost unstoppable.Homes attracted…
