A North Carolina megachurch bought a $2.1 million site for a 1,200-seat campus, but the county denied rezoning over traffic and tax base concerns, leading to a federal lawsuit under religious land-use law.

Catholic deacon and Gleaner columnist Peter Espeut argued that reparations are an ethical duty, cited the Coral Gardens trust fund and Crown land transfer, and insisted that not one cent of reparations money should go to the Jamaican government.

The demolition of homes at Cooper’s Pen in Trelawny has reopened a difficult question that sits beneath Jamaica’s housing debate: should home…

A long-running effort to regularise a large municipal property at Easington in St Thomas is moving towards a public land sale, potentially…

A September 2026 letter to the Observer, written after squatter evictions at Cooper’s Pen, urged churches to audit their land and grant small parcels of idle property to Jamaica’s landless, estimated by the writer at 1.5 million people.

Jamaican churches are often called the country’s second-largest landowner after government, but no public register confirms it. What an honest audit, rather than seizure, could actually reveal.

Firefighters in St Catherine protected an estimated $1.62 billion in property during August after responding to 625 emergency calls. Bushfires dominated the workload, highlighting the importance of fire prevention, land maintenance and emergency response to Jamaica’s property resilience.

Jamaica’s law of adverse possession, rooted in the Limitation of Actions Act of 1881, allows a person who has occupied someone else’s land openly and continuously for 12 years to claim legal title. A renewed public debate in September 2026 is asking whether a colonial-era framework still serves a modern nation — and what the answer means for property owners across the island.

An attorney sets out who can apply for a replacement Certificate of Title, what the National Land Agency requires, and how long the process usually takes.

Bishop Dwight Fletcher of the Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches recalled how churches helped freed people own land in free villages and founded schools, and said the Church’s future authority depends on the integrity and transparency of its institutions.