current affairs

The last five weeks have brought five connected developments to Black River’s recovery: a community road map backed by sobering business survey data, NaRRA on the ground with a master plan in development, a sparse Independence Day ceremony, a school principal’s alarm about students leaving class to work, and the diaspora filling gaps the formal programme has not yet closed. Together they map St Elizabeth ten months after Melissa.

Cooper’s Pen demolition puts police support, court enforcement and residents’ rights under review

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 August 2026. British first-time buyers spent last winter racing against a calendar rather than a mortgage rate.…

Santander has launched a mortgage in the United Kingdom that requires first-time buyers to put down as little as two…

From migration and murder to hurricane grants, landlessness and drought, Jamaica’s churches are speaking forcefully into national affairs. The question is no longer whether they should have a voice, but how much influence that voice should carry.

Jamaica is often described as a Christian country. The description is not difficult to understand. Church buildings appear in almost…

As churches receive public money for restoration and campaign against landlessness, Jamaica must ask whether religious property could also help address the country’s deepening housing crisis.

Jamaicans can legally access less than 1 percent of their own 494-mile coastline under a 1956 law. Even the hotel industry now backs reform, but a new 2026 policy still stops short of guaranteeing the right.

A major Montego Bay resort moves forward, the NHT absorbs another hurricane bill, commercial property owners confront insurance delays, and disputes over land and coastal development sharpen across the island.

Jamaica’s modest pension payments and rising housing costs are creating a retirement problem that few families have properly calculated

Reports of a looming gang conflict raise a larger question about the future of one of Jamaica’s most important commercial districts

Jamaica should stop treating its most sought-after high schools as names on a league table and start seeing the housing, transport and child-safety questions gathered around their gates.

Cabinet approval advances a US$756.9 million Montego Bay development, but separate regulatory clearance is still required before casino gaming can begin

San Francisco’s housing frenzy raises an uncomfortable question for Jamaica: if newly created technology fortunes begin chasing island property, who will still be able to call the market their own?

The investment is not charity alone. It is an attempt to repair the market on which the mortgage business depends.