At a churches’ Emancipation event, UTech planning professor Carol Archer linked Hurricane Melissa’s damage to 120,000 buildings with poor building practice and the fact that about 40 per cent of Jamaica’s land is still unregistered.

Scammers are renting Airbnb properties legitimately, then secretly re-listing them online without the owner’s knowledge. One of four distinct property fraud schemes RAJ has had to warn Jamaicans about in 2026 alone.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Sunrise Community Church’s Hands On Ministry joined the charity ARK and local firms to repair a West Bay home with live wires, a leaking roof and standing water inside, for single mother of two Tina Ebanks-Jackson.

A Wisconsin village has confirmed that a Baptist church’s parsonage no longer qualifies for property tax exemption and voted against refunding back taxes, though it could qualify again if circumstances change.

The Margin examined how Canadian churches are redeveloping their land, from Toronto’s Bloor Street United and a Unitarian church sale to a 57-storey tower at Vancouver’s First Baptist, noting that $15 billion in land changed hands as churches closed.