A reader who co-owns family land is being pushed by her siblings to accept a developer’s offer she isn’t sure about. Our response looks at the questions to settle before anyone signs.

Quarrels between brothers over property can harden into decades of silence. Ephesians 4 calls men to put away bitterness and forgive as Christ forgave, even across a boundary line.

Some families carry land, a house or a dream that has been stuck for years. Psalm 68 speaks of a plentiful rain sent on God’s inheritance when it was weary. A devotional for the long dry seasons of home.

A reader tells how her scattered extended family pooled their money to pay off decades of unpaid property tax on their grandparents’ land, and what they learned about each other along the way.

Thousands of Jamaicans occupy family land based on oral gifts or long presence, unaware they have no legal title. A March 2026 analysis explains the costly gap between custom and law — and what landholders must do to protect their position.

Kingston, Jamaica — 20 January 2026 A global shift is underway as Generation X and Millennials prepare to inherit significant amounts of…

Jamaica does not experience property the way many larger countries do. Here, land is not just an asset class or a line…

Jamaica’s ageing community is often discussed as a health story, or a family story, or a pension story. It is all of…

Under Jamaica’s Limitation of Actions Act, a person who occupies land openly and continuously for 12 years without the owner’s permission can apply to the courts for title. Legal experts warn that the risk is highest for diaspora Jamaicans and those who inherited unregistered family land.

Squatting on private land in Kingston’s inner-city communities remains a persistent challenge for landowners and authorities. Private landowners whose property is occupied without consent face a lengthy and costly recovery process, while urban renewal efforts are complicated by the scale of informal settlement.