Central Kingston’s ageing housing stock needs urgent renewal, with 26 units completed or under construction and unresolved land ownership issues threatening wider regeneration.

A modest octagonal Jamaican home tests whether a central living room and carefully engineered eight-facet roof can justify an unconventional plan.

A stalled concrete house becomes the starting point for an evidence-led adaptive reuse concept, with safety and repairability placed ahead of appearance.

Jamaica’s J$11.62 billion Greater Bernard Lodge development comes as the Government acknowledges that higher mortgage limits can fuel property prices. Can building more homes finally make ownership affordable?

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is set to remain Jamaica Labour Party leader for another year, but attention now turns to whether political continuity can deliver more affordable homes, stronger communities and faster reconstruction.

Jamaica’s housing market may be reaching for the sky, but for many ordinary Jamaicans, the dream of owning a home is becoming…

Billions in insurance settlements, a deepening land ownership debate, expensive rebuilding decisions and an expanding north coast property market have exposed a difficult question: Is Jamaica building communities that ordinary Jamaicans can afford, maintain and call their own?

Cabinet has approved new climate resilient hospitals for Black River, Falmouth, Hanover and Kingston, with the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority set to help deliver them. No costs have been announced and several sites are still being finalised.

An economist estimates that Jamaica’s drought could cost the economy more than J$35 billion, as forecasters see little relief before the dry season. The water shortage is now weighing on construction, small businesses and the running costs of homes.

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.