An attorney sets out who can apply for a replacement Certificate of Title, what the National Land Agency requires, and how long the process usually takes.

After the Coopers Pen demolitions, Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship president Helene Coley Nicholson urged a non-partisan national land policy, emergency help for displaced families, and an end to politicians enabling squatting for partisan gain.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government will build a programme to formalise irregular settlements and prevent new squatting, following the Cooper’s Pen demolitions.

A house is usually demolished from the top down. The roof goes first. Then perhaps the windows, the doors, a wall. Eventually…

After 20 squatter houses were demolished in Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, the Association of Christian Communicators and Media called landlessness a “massively unjust” slavery legacy and proposed land committees and NHT rent-to-own schemes.

Jamaica’s property news this week was less concerned with polished kitchens and infinity pools than with something considerably more fundamental, who has…