land ownership rights Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. You saved for years. You purchased land back home. You left Jamaica for work, intending…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. There is a clock running on your land, and most Jamaican landowners do not know…

The case for reforming Jamaica’s adverse possession law has been made, in various forms, by lawyers, journalists, Privy Council justices,…

Kingston, Jamaica, 8 March 2026. The experience of Hurricane Melissa has done something that years of land reform advocacy could…

Kingston, Jamaica, 29 September 2025. A man writes to a legal advice column with a problem that is, in its…

Kingston, Jamaica, 25 June 2025. Jamaica has two adverse possession periods operating in parallel, and the difference between them says…

Kingston, Jamaica, 23 October 2024. The conversation about adverse possession in Jamaica focuses overwhelmingly on what landowners stand to lose.…

Kingston, Jamaica, 13 August 2023. An 850-acre seafront property in Westmoreland has been at the centre of one of Jamaica’s…

Kingston, Jamaica, 14 December 2022. One of the most practically useful pieces of property advice in Jamaica is also the…

Kingston, Jamaica, 11 August 2022. When the then president of the Jamaican Bar Association said publicly in 2022 that adverse…

Kingston, Jamaica, 17 July 2022. At least 25 people paid a total of nearly $25 million to a Trelawny real…

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

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

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

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