eviction

A 75-year-old wood sculptor vowed to fight his eviction from Jacob Taylor Beach. A Supreme Court injunction has now paused the removal, with a full hearing set for October 6.

Cooper’s Pen demolition puts police support, court enforcement and residents’ rights under review

Before the eviction dispute reached court, NRCA had already offered Jacob Taylor Beach vendors a partial deal: return once the beach is upgraded and share the space with local fisherfolk, under tighter regulatory control.

A Gleaner columnist offers a sharply different account of Coopers Pen: a landowner who tried dialogue and a facilitated purchase option for years before a 2010 court order, and a 2012 government intervention that actually slowed eviction.

A Gleaner columnist offers a sharply different account of Coopers Pen: a landowner who tried dialogue and a facilitated purchase option for years before a 2010 court order, and a 2012 government intervention that actually slowed eviction.

A 75-year-old man faces eviction from land his family says was passed down for generations, after a court sided with a title holder whose own account of the purchase kept shifting under questioning.

The Jamaica Evangelical Alliance condemned the demolition of at least 20 houses at Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, as inhumane, saying the State failed to provide alternative housing or shelter before displacing residents.

A Kenyan land court has ruled that a Catholic church in Siaya County, which built a permanent church on land it agreed to buy in 1976, can be evicted because it never paid the Sh50,000 purchase price.

Colombia evicted Abundant Life Christian Church from a seized former bowling alley in Barranquilla after nearly 30 years, saying it owed 2.2 billion pesos in rent, while the church cited 2.5 billion pesos in improvements.

The Anglican Church of Kenya’s Eldoret diocese has evicted more than 100 families from land in Kipkaren Estate that it says it owns, while residents who say they have lived there for 50 years plan to go to court.

More than 100 families on Kampala’s Nsambya Housing Estate faced eviction after a 49-year lease expired and the Catholic archdiocese moved to redevelop, until a government minister stepped in and suspended the deadline.

A Spanish court ordered nine nuns who broke with the Vatican to leave their 15th-century convent in Belorado, ruling that the Church held valid ownership documents while the nuns showed no legal title, and warning of forced eviction.

A Brisbane couple who once lived in their car face eviction from a Uniting Church-owned farmhouse on land earmarked for a 92-lot subdivision, after a tribunal refused the church’s bid for secrecy.

Lagos authorities demolished a 48-year-old Celestial Church of Christ parish along with homes and shops in Otumara after seven days’ notice, calling the structures illegal, while residents said no compensation was offered.

As a Westmoreland eviction deadline approached, squatters warned of civil war, even as the owner quietly spared a school and a church, and a 20-acre resettlement gift sat unanswered by government for years.