A law born in 1881 can still transfer the ground beneath a registered owner’s feet. The question is not whether Jamaica should erase adverse possession, but whether it can rebuild it for the country that now exists.

Adverse possession still serves a purpose, but an 1881 framework should not decide modern ownership without stronger notice, clearer safeguards and a fairer balance between title holders and long-term

Priest and columnist Dr Raulston Nembhard argues that a law letting occupiers claim private land after 12 years, against 60 years for Crown land, is unjust, and urges the State to release idle public land for housing instead.

Jamaica has achieved what nations with vastly larger economies spend billions trying to manufacture: global cultural influence. We must now convert that influence into enduring Jamaican wealth.

For generations, the Jamaican Justice of the Peace has represented something reassuringly human: a recognised…

A South African court ordered a tribal chief to return the keys of an Anglican church in the Eastern Cape but declined to declare the diocese the owner, because it could not produce documents proving its right to use the communal land.