As Hurricane Melissa leaves thousands without homes, the JLP Government has voted to siphon an additional $57 billion from the National Housing Trust over five years — a decision the Opposition calls a betrayal of Jamaica’s most vulnerable contributors

There is something deeply obscene about stripping a housing fund of its resources while thousands of Jamaicans sleep under tarpaulins in the wreckage left by Hurricane Melissa. Yet on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, that is precisely what the Jamaica Labour Party Government did — voting in the House of Representatives to extend, for the fifth time, its annual drawdown of $11.4 billion from the National Housing Trust.