The City of St Petersburg and the Florida Housing Coalition have begun training faith leaders to use Florida’s new Yes in God’s Backyard law, which lets places of worship bypass some zoning red tape to build affordable homes on their land.

A Jamaican minister told a Miami hotel investment summit that outdated perceptions, not current conditions, are the real obstacle to more foreign hotel investment.

Manhattan’s St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery won approval to sell 27,000 square feet of air rights to a housing project, the first such approval for a faith group under New York’s new zoning, with proceeds reserved for maintenance.

A letter writer welcomed Dr Balvin Braham as president of Northern Caribbean University, noting the Seventh-day Adventist institution operates without direct government funding while needing campus expansion, structural renovations, modern lecture theatres and new technology.

Jamaica’s hotel investment pipeline hit $4.2 billion, but 10 percent is delayed, including a Marriott resort first announced in 2019 for 2022 completion that still isn’t built, years before Melissa gave the sector a new excuse.

A 71-year-old Westmoreland amputee has lived in a Nazarene church’s kitchen for nine months since Hurricane Melissa flattened the house the congregation had built him, with his new home’s frame standing but unfinished for lack of materials.