A Westlands parish that bought its Nairobi land for Sh100,000 in 1964 says the Anglican diocese, which has used it since 2012, owes more than Sh9 million in rent on property now worth Sh500 million.

The National Housing Trust’s housing scheme allocation system has been subject to allegations of manipulation, with connected parties receiving preferential access to units that qualifying applicants have waited years to receive. This report examines how the NHT’s allocation process works, where it is vulnerable to abuse, and what accountability mechanisms apply.

Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, Jamaica’s oldest Baptist church, marked 200 years in 2019. Founded in 1818 and built by a missionary and enslaved workers, its Georgian chapel has survived major hurricanes and termite damage.

Montreal, “the city of 100 bell towers”, has turned churches into a theatre and daycares, but also luxury condos that lost heritage status and abandoned ruins, a historian wrote in Canada’s History in 2019.

UM News reported sharp increases in property insurance quotes for United Methodist churches, including a Virginia church whose premium jumped from $6,000 to $30,000 and a Tennessee church from $900 to $4,600.

Publication date: 5 February 2019 | Covering: January 2019 Monthly Briefing Fed January 29–30 — six days ago: landmark pivot to “patient”;…

Young professionals are reshaping Jamaica’s urban apartment market in early 2019, as Kingston and St Andrew see a surge in multi-storey residential development.

As 2019 gets underway, the Caribbean investment community assesses a landscape shaped by Barbados’s new IMF programme, rising US interest rates, continuing post-hurricane reconstruction, and the imminent prospect of Guyanese first oil. Jamaica’s macroeconomic success provides the region’s most encouraging template.

An audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis revealed that three of Jamaica’s most sensitive public institutions — the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Jamaica Information Service, and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service — operated for y