The Opposition’s housing spokesman wants at least 30 per cent of the annual NHT transfer to the budget ring-fenced for upgrading Jamaica’s informal settlements, as Montego Bay’s mayor calls for stronger local planning powers.

Every rebuilding story begins the same way: not with blueprints or budgets, but with silence. The kind of silence that settles over…

Up to 40% of rural Jamaican land passes informally through generations.Family land is legally owned by all descendants — no single owner…

25,000 families settled on Crown land schemes by 1930. Inheritance splits gave rise to Jamaica’s enduring family land crisis. Crop liens locked…