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

Gloria Campbell, a retiree living in the US, is suing Bog Walk Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Catherine over 71.11 square metres she says it has occupied for more than 20 years. The church argues it now owns the strip through adverse possession.

A Trinidad High Court judge ordered Paramin farmer Jude St Hilaire off land belonging to Our Lady of Guadalupe RC Church, ruling he had not proved the exclusive, continuous possession needed to claim the land from the Archdiocese of Port of Spain.

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

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

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

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

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

A St Catherine couple who bought land in 2017 are suing Bethel Chapel Apostolic Foundation, alleging the church wrongly obtained title to an extra half-acre by adverse possession. The church says it bought 1.5 acres for $30,000 in 1973.

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