Relocating Coopers Pen residents helps 99 people. A Gleaner editorial argues Jamaica’s real squatting crisis, up to a third of the population, needs the kind of cross-party commitment no government has sustained in 50 years.

St Vincent’s Church in Sunday’s Well, Cork, a 170-year-old protected Gothic church on 0.58 acres, is back on the market at €375,000, half its 2018 price, after University College Cork pulled out of a deal.

First United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Indiana, approved a letter of intent to sell its 1.6-acre parking lot for $8.8 million to a student housing developer, keeping 100 parking spaces in the new garage and investing proceeds in its endowment.

Bishop Dwight Fletcher of the Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches recalled how churches helped freed people own land in free villages and founded schools, and said the Church’s future authority depends on the integrity and transparency of its institutions.

Jamaicans can legally access less than 1 percent of their own 494-mile coastline under a 1956 law. Even the hotel industry now backs reform, but a new 2026 policy still stops short of guaranteeing the right.

Restore a Child and the Palm Springs SDA Church in Florida presented a cheque to the West Jamaica Conference to keep rebuilding an Adventist church destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, as mission teams returned to help children and families.