Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says the new comprehensive National Housing Policy, which will address Jamaica’s complex housing challenges, will soon be placed before Parliament The National Housing Policy was tabled in Parliament as a Green Paper in 2019. Approval of this policy will mark the adoption of the first ever comprehensive...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the new Edmund Ridge Estate housing development at Rose Hall, St. James, will facilitate infrastructure projects valued at approximately $437 million. Speaking at the official launch of the first of three model housing units under phase one of the project on February 25, Mr. Bartlett said that road, water and drainage works will...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., officially launched the first of three model housing units under phase one of the new Edmund Ridge Estate development at Rose Hall, St. James, on Thursday (February 25). The development is named in honour of Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, and is being spearheaded by the Housing...

The Electronic Land-Titling Project, which seeks to enhance the land-registration process, is to get under way in April. To commence the initial project activity, a sum of $60 million has been set aside in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. For the 2021/22 period under the project, it is anticipated that a Project Management Office...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., on Thursday (February 25), handed out land titles to 67 residents from six communities across St. James. The residents were presented with their registered land titles, under the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) National Land Titling Programme, at a ceremony held at the Social Development Commission (SDC)...

Strata corporations have been given the green light to conduct their general meetings via video conferencing in light of the restrictions on public gatherings due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Supreme Court made the order on February 16, following an application by the Commission of Strata Corporations in late 2020. Chief Executive Officer of the Commission of Strata Corporations,...

The Government is in the process of developing legislation to govern the operations of shared residential and commercial developments that are not strata properties. This was disclosed by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, who informed that legislation is now being promulgated following extensive research on the matter. “Jamaica has a wide cross section of residential and...