land ownership rights Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica, 10 May 2020. A property owner writes with a situation that begins simply: she bought a property jointly…

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…

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 February 2017. Squatting in urban Jamaica looks different from squatting in rural Jamaica, and the distinction matters…

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

Kingston, Jamaica, 12 August 2015. A case decided in Jamaica’s courts and confirmed on appeal offers one of the clearest…