Barbados’ Cabinet has told the housing ministry to draw up a formal emergency and transitional housing policy after fires in crowded urban districts displaced families. Jamaica’s own post-Melissa experience shows why it matters.

A US$340 million US funding package for the Caribbean focuses on undersea cables, port security, policing and health workforces, prompting a former CARICOM official to ask why climate resilience does not rank higher as Jamaica nears the Hurricane Melissa anniversary.

A new HVS review of the Caribbean hotel pipeline finds for-sale branded residences underpinning many luxury projects, with Jamaica holding only 4.2 per cent of projects but 11.3 per cent of rooms.

Barbados’ estate agents’ association says agents must document anti-money laundering checks on every deal. In Jamaica, the latest national risk assessment rated real estate dealers medium-high risk and flagged gaps in oversight of developers.

As England prepares to register its private landlords, a growing arrangement involving property owners and social housing providers exposes a legal divide between ownership, management and responsibility. For Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, the question is just as important: who should answer for a home when the person collecting the income is not the person running it?

Antigua and Barbuda has received 150 Chinese-funded condominium homes at Pelican Court, built on the site of the former Booby Alley settlement, and its Prime Minister says he has asked China for 300 more units at Perry Bay.

Trinidad and Tobago’s TT$63.4 billion budget for fiscal 2027 lists TT$904 million for housing, while the state housing agency reports about 500 homes delivered since the Government took office against a 20,000-home target. The gap between targets and keys is one Jamaica knows well.

Barbados’ Minister of Finance has linked improved credit ratings to returning private investment at the opening of a 32-unit waterfront condominium in Bridgetown. The project is one of several reshaping the capital’s coastline.

CARICOM says 939 nationals were processed in the first ten months of full free movement between Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Jamaica has not yet joined, even as its own rebuild faces a shortage of skilled workers.

Jamaica will join CARICOM assessments of cement, paints and road bitumen that could inform future regional trade tariffs. No tariff change has yet been announced.