A 75-year-old man faces eviction from land his family says was passed down for generations, after a court sided with a title holder whose own account of the purchase kept shifting under questioning.

A branch of Shepherd Bushiri’s church lost its court bid to claim a R4.9 million Rustenburg farm registered to his liquidated ministry, after a judge rejected its oral agreement and redacted bank statements as proof of ownership.

Jamaica’s property taxes are based on land values as old as 2017. The NLA is revaluing 900,000 parcels to fix that, and an economist says the update is overdue, not excessive, whatever it does to your next tax bill.

First Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street agreed to sell 360 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn for $28.3 million to developers planning housing, calling the site a financial burden and planning to move its ministries.

The Jamaica Evangelical Alliance condemned the demolition of at least 20 houses at Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, as inhumane, saying the State failed to provide alternative housing or shelter before displacing residents.

688 schools were damaged by Hurricane Melissa, 311 severely. Nine months later, western Jamaica’s students are starting the new school year in temporary plyboard classrooms after tents failed to hold up.