A breakaway Adventist group is setting up a commune on leased land in St Mary, while Catholic deacon Ronald Thwaites says money and property drive many Jamaican church splits and fundamentalist groups’ real estate should be examined.

An Adventist breakaway group, Following the Blueprint Ministries, has built more than 13 buildings including homes, a school and a sanatorium on leased land at Bell Hill, St Mary, with no road access or running water, raising questions from local officials.

After the August 2021 earthquake in Haiti, the Adventist Church counted 22 churches and four schools to rebuild and about 3,000 members with damaged property, and said reconstruction would go ahead as long as funds allowed.

In September 2021 Mandeville Regional Hospital moved all but one of its outpatient clinics into the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall on Caledonia Road, with patients parking on the church lot, as COVID-19 strained hospital space.

Nine years after fire destroyed its auditorium, the Adventist University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad dedicated a new building with 2,600 seats upstairs and a school of nursing below, funded through a long rebuilding campaign.

Flanker Seventh-day Adventist Church in St James opened a free learning centre in 2021. It is equipped with $500,000 worth of USAID-funded tablets, laptops, Wi-Fi and printers and mainly serves PEP and CSEC students who lack internet access at home.

Since 2017, a Seventh-day Adventist auditorium in Mount Salem has housed laboratory, antenatal and physiotherapy services moved out of Cornwall Regional Hospital. The minister praised the church, which said its own programmes had been squeezed.

A West Bay Seventh-day Adventist congregation lost its appeal to build a $2 million temple on a residential road in Cayman after planners ruled it had not shown community need, noting a nearby Adventist church was well under capacity.

A year after Hurricane Dorian destroyed two Adventist churches in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, one congregation was building a temporary structure, the other was seeking a new site, and about half the membership had returned.

Seventy-three Adventist youth campers from St Vincent travelled to Dominica and laid the concrete blocks for the Boetica Seventh-day Adventist Church, destroyed by Hurricane Maria, in three days as part of a regional rebuilding mission.