A new $29-million NSWMA holding station at George’s Plain, Westmoreland, will let garbage trucks offload locally instead of driving to Retirement, St James, easing the post-hurricane backlog.

The Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee, chaired by Professor Peter Blair Henry, has launched with plans to hold NaRRA to published targets and keep the public informed.

Jamaican churches are often called the country’s second-largest landowner after government, but no public register confirms it. What an honest audit, rather than seizure, could actually reveal.

The Montego Bay Bypass is about 90 per cent complete and on course to finish by the end of September, though no decision has yet been made on tolling.

Kingston’s municipal corporation says it will enforce a long-standing no-vending rule in front of Kingston Parish Church and along upper King Street, urging vendors to move into stalls at the nearby 65 Mall Arcade.

Borrowers behind on student loans can now apply online for the SLB Debt Reset programme, which waives late fees and half of interest arrears and runs until 31 December 2026.

A 75-year-old wood sculptor vowed to fight his eviction from Jacob Taylor Beach. A Supreme Court injunction has now paused the removal, with a full hearing set for October 6.

Consultations on transforming Kingston’s 51-acre National Heroes Park, with a purpose-built Parliament and new UDC headquarters, are almost complete, the Prime Minister says, with construction to follow.

Relocating Coopers Pen residents helps 99 people. A Gleaner editorial argues Jamaica’s real squatting crisis, up to a third of the population, needs the kind of cross-party commitment no government has sustained in 50 years.

Fayval Williams has invited public-sector unions to discuss reinstating a legal cap on the wage bill as a share of GDP, repealed in 2023 without a replacement.