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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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