Browsing: adverse possession

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. You saved for years. You purchased land back home. You left Jamaica for work, intending…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. There is a clock running on your land, and most Jamaican landowners do not know…

The case for reforming Jamaica’s adverse possession law has been made, in various forms, by lawyers, journalists, Privy Council justices,…

Kingston, Jamaica, 25 June 2025. Jamaica has two adverse possession periods operating in parallel, and the difference between them says…

Kingston, Jamaica, 23 October 2024. Most Jamaicans who think about adverse possession think about it as a risk from strangers,…

Kingston, Jamaica, 23 October 2024. The conversation about adverse possession in Jamaica focuses overwhelmingly on what landowners stand to lose.…

The concept of the “ghetto” in Jamaica is deeply intertwined with the country’s history of colonialism, slavery, political evolution, and…

Kingston, Jamaica, 13 August 2023. An 850-acre seafront property in Westmoreland has been at the centre of one of Jamaica’s…

“Good things might come to those who wait, but not for those who wait too late.” This phrase applies to…

Kingston, Jamaica, 14 December 2022. One of the most practically useful pieces of property advice in Jamaica is also the…

Kingston, Jamaica, 11 August 2022. When the then president of the Jamaican Bar Association said publicly in 2022 that adverse…

Kingston, Jamaica, 1 November 2018. If squatting and adverse possession were problems that affected only inattentive private landowners who had…

Kingston, Jamaica, 1 June 2018. The moment a squatter drives the first post into the ground on your land, the…

Kingston, Jamaica, 13 April 2018. A buyer in St Catherine purchased a property in or around 2014 having been told…

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 February 2017. Squatting in urban Jamaica looks different from squatting in rural Jamaica, and the distinction matters…