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Give a gift subscription →- Borrowed Builders: Can Peru’s Playbook Speed Jamaica’s Rebuild?
- A Year Under the Tarp: Melissa’s Victims Are Still Waiting for Homes
- Daily Design: The Split-Breeze House
- Jamaica’s Cash Buyers: The Overseas Money Reshaping Who Can Afford a Home
- DAILY CARTOON: Skip the Fees, Lose the House?
- Jamaica Plans to Share Approved House Designs
- NHT Offers 189 St Catherine Homes in November Intake
- NHT Opens Four-Day Window for Pensioners Seeking J$1.5m Solar Grants
Analysis
Jamaica and the UK will split the cost of bringing in Arup, Mace and Gleeds — the firms behind Peru’s post-flood rebuild — to power NaRRA. Peru shows what that can deliver, and where the limits lie.
One year after Hurricane Melissa, about half of 118,000 assessed households are still waiting for repair grants, and 2,500 modular homes bought for families who lost everything have barely begun to reach them. What was promised, what was delivered, and why the gap is so hard to close.
Jamaica has never had an official annual school ranking, yet an unofficial one shaped where parents send their children for a decade. Where it came from, why it stopped, what a fair version would measure, and what it means for where families buy.
At a churches’ Emancipation event, UTech planning professor Carol Archer linked Hurricane Melissa’s damage to 120,000 buildings with poor building practice and the fact that about 40 per cent of Jamaica’s land is still unregistered.
Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.
Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.
Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.
The Margin examined how Canadian churches are redeveloping their land, from Toronto’s Bloor Street United and a Unitarian church sale to a 57-storey tower at Vancouver’s First Baptist, noting that $15 billion in land changed hands as churches closed.
NHT social housing and the governments separate New Social Housing Programme sound similar but work on opposite ownership models. The Prime Minister explained the difference, and it matters more than it sounds.
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