In Jamaica, land ownership is governed by its own independent legal framework, and the British monarchy does not directly own private land,…

Jamaica has a significant number of informal settlements — communities where residents have occupied land for many years, sometimes decades, without holding registered title to the land they live on. The legal status of these occupants, their vulnerability to eviction, and the government’s approach to regularisation are issues that affect hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans in both urban and rural areas.

Kingston, Jamaica, 4 June 2018. Jamaica’s squatting problem is vast enough, and old enough, to have changed the character of entire communities.…

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