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Analysis
The diaspora sent US$3.12 billion home in 2025/26 and remittances now outweigh tourism and foreign investment. But for every Jamaican who chose to come home in the latest count, about 25 left. We looked at what the state actually offers returnees, their children and their grandchildren.
Seven months after Havana recalled its medical brigade, 157 Cuban doctors and nurses are back in Jamaica on direct contracts, taking the total to 200 against 277 before the split. The paper trail shows direct contracts were Jamaica’s preferred model from the start. The seven-month gap was not.
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.
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Kingston, Jamaica, 24 August 2026. Miami-Dade County recorded 24 home and condo sales of at…
A 2025 national count found 2,442 homeless people across all 14 parishes, almost half in Kingston and St Andrew, according to the latest Economic and Social Survey Jamaica.
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After 20 squatter houses were demolished in Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, the Association of Christian Communicators and Media called landlessness a “massively unjust” slavery legacy and proposed land committees and NHT rent-to-own schemes.
The death of the former Cambridge professor has intensified a bitter argument about academic integrity, institutional responsibility and racism. For Jamaica, the case carries an uncomfortable warning about who is celebrated, who is scrutinised and who is permitted to make mistakes.
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