Today’s cartoon: the house is built, but there is nowhere to put it. The Prime Minister wants owners of idle land, including Jamaicans abroad, to offer it for social housing. Here is why land is the real bottleneck.

Jamaica needs an estimated 150,000 more homes. The Government has promised 70,000 housing solutions, but the NHT has completed about 21,000 homes in a decade, and Hurricane Melissa has since reset the scale of the problem. Here is what the numbers show.

Britain’s struggle to turn approved developments into completed homes offers a warning for Jamaica, where construction ambitions, infrastructure demands and the cost of building must increasingly be considered together.

The US dollar rose 6 cents to $159.65 on Friday, October 23, ending the week 67 cents above the previous Friday, while the Canadian dollar, British pound and euro all rose against the Jamaican dollar.

A weathered Jamaican warehouse becomes a naturally ventilated neighbourhood market by repairing its sawtooth roof and keeping the structure that already works.

A broken main has interrupted NWC water supply to Catherine Hall and West Green, St James. Repairs are under way, with restoration expected by 9 p.m. Monday, October 26.