Jamaican churches are often called the country’s second-largest landowner after government, but no public register confirms it. What an honest audit, rather than seizure, could actually reveal.

A dedicated police branch recovered $17.6 million in stolen crops and livestock this year. Farm theft still costs Jamaica up to $6 billion annually, a number decades of prior crackdowns havent moved.

Kingston’s municipal corporation says it will enforce a long-standing no-vending rule in front of Kingston Parish Church and along upper King Street, urging vendors to move into stalls at the nearby 65 Mall Arcade.

A 75-year-old wood sculptor vowed to fight his eviction from Jacob Taylor Beach. A Supreme Court injunction has now paused the removal, with a full hearing set for October 6.

The Church of England’s Archbishops’ Council Housing Project is working towards nearly 2,000 homes on church land, including more than 1,000 affordable units, after advising 85 parishes and granting £1.2m to 54 projects, Christian Today reported.

A Spokane church sold its 1905 downtown building after its insurance quote tripled from $16,000 to $48,000 a year; as renters, it now pays about $3,000, part of a wider rise in church building costs.