Before Little Bay’s eviction notices went out, a former government minister warned the landowner that residents’ adverse possession applications were already in progress, and that they wanted to buy the land, not steal it.

Writing in the Observer, priest and commentator Raulston Nembhard argued that churches have poorly managed their land, and proposed NHT partnerships, a tax on idle church acreage and an end to adverse possession claims against registered owners.

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

A Gleaner editorial on churches losing land to squatters, including a Moravian estate in St Elizabeth, called for a balance between property rights and social need and urged legislators to review the law of adverse possession.

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

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

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

Kingston, Jamaica, 5 December 2016. The doctrine of adverse possession operates across the entire common law Caribbean, not only in Jamaica. A…

Kingston, Jamaica, 8 August 2016. To understand why Jamaica has 700 informal settlements and an estimated half a million people occupying land…