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.

Cayman Islands property sales reached US$978 million through September in one CIREBA-based report, but large condominium completions are distorting the headline. Fresh contracts and available housing tell a more complicated story.

Antigua’s 150-unit Pelican Court housing development is nearing handover, but compensation, ownership and mortgages for former Booby Alley residents are not yet settled.

Saint Lucia’s Theobalds treatment plant is nearing a contractor decision for a CDF-backed upgrade serving more than 40,000 customers. Completion is targeted for December 2027.

One hundred two-bedroom homes in Guyana have been allocated to qualified buyers while construction is only about 15 per cent complete. The project illustrates demand for finished homes.

From the Pope’s case for faith in public life in Paris to a church in Jamaica, Queens being sold for US$11.75 million and a covenant row in Kingston 6, this week’s church news kept returning to the same themes: buildings, money and the state.