Kingstons high-rise boom has outpaced its water infrastructure. A Gleaner editorial argues the fix should be mandatory rainwater harvesting on new buildings, not just more NWC pipeline spending.

Minister Matthew Samuda told an NCB business forum that climate resilience will need financing from public, private, local and international sources.

In his Independence Day message, the Prime Minister called for national unity behind an island-wide reconstruction programme to be led by NaRRA after Hurricane Melissa.

Jennifer Hue’s rooftop solar panels survived Hurricane Melissa’s 180 mph winds intact, and her home became her neighbourhood’s only source of power for days. A real resilience case for solar, not just a cost one.

Retreat Drive and Passion Gardens in Bull Bay have reopened under SPARK, with the Prime Minister saying about 340 roads are under way and 110 already completed.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

The UK government has delivered only 23 percent of its 1.5 million homes target in the first twenty months of Parliament, with annual completions running well below the level required. Planning reform, construction costs, and mortgage market volatility are all contributing to the shortfall. Jamaica, which operates without a national housebuilding target and has no systematic measure of its own supply deficit, should take careful note of what happens when housing ambition outpaces delivery.

Jamaica has the money and the housing pipeline. What it is running short of is builders. A Senate debate has put the construction skills crisis on the record, and the consequences for housing delivery and property prices are real.