current affairs

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 August 2026. TSB and several other British lenders raised their fixed mortgage rates earlier this year in…

Nationwide Building Society closed out last year by cutting mortgage rates to their lowest levels since September 2022, with brokers…

Three major British lenders, Nationwide, Virgin Money, and Santander, raised their mortgage rates within days of each other earlier this…

Five major British lenders, including HSBC, Santander, TSB, NatWest, and Principality Building Society, cut mortgage rates within days of one…

For the first time since October 2023, the cheapest tracker mortgages in Britain fell below the cheapest fixed rate deals…

Santander cut its UK mortgage rates to as low as 3.55 per cent last year in a move brokers linked…

Nationwide Building Society withdrew the last fixed rate mortgages priced below 4 per cent from the UK market earlier this…

Inflation reached 7.5 per cent in July, breaking the national target for a second consecutive month. The Bank has explained…

Jamaicans abroad spend generations trying to return, while Jamaica prepares another generation to leave

The artificial intelligence boom has produced a new and particular kind of property pressure in the United States. In the…

The National Housing Trust has confirmed its peril insurance premium will hold for another year. JN Bank has a new managing director. And Jamaica is beginning to move away from large-value Jamaican dollar cheques. Individually each development is modest. Together they describe a property and mortgage market in the middle of an institutional transition.

Unemployment is just 3.7 per cent. Yet Jamaica has 25,700 fewer people employed, a shrinking labour force and a decades-old…

British mortgage borrowers are now paying an average arrangement fee of £1,129 on fixed rate deals, a noticeably higher figure…

For every US dollar Jamaica earned from merchandise exports in 2025, it spent approximately US$4.55 on imports. Tourism and remittances keep the wider structure standing. But behind the attractive façade is an economy increasingly dependent on things made somewhere else.

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