Jamaica’s murders fell to a three decade low in 2025, yet registered private security personnel rose past 30,000, more than two for every police officer. A global investigation into gated living, the guards who staff it, and the new law that would let gated communities sell the homes of owners who do not pay.

Jamaica has little low land, yet about 90 per cent of its economy sits on the coast. An investigation into sinking cities, rising seas and what the moving shoreline means for Jamaican property.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican homebuyers hoping for cheaper mortgages face a difficult reality: interest rates remain elevated, household expenses are rising, and…

When a Jamaican parent dies, a missing will, a new marriage and an uncertain land title can turn a family home into…

Japan has nine million empty homes, Spain almost four million and Italy more than nine million not lived in by residents. Jamaica, which says it needs about 150,000 homes, has no published count of its own.

State wealth funds now control about US$15 trillion and own slices of London, Paris and New York, from The Shard to Regent Street. Jamaica once saved a bauxite windfall of its own; by 2015 there was J$5.8 million left.

Jamaica’s biggest hotel landlord is not Sandals but a family from Mallorca. We traced who owns the island’s resort rooms, from Spanish dynasties and Mexican groups to American private capital and a half sold Sandals.

Seventy four years of mining have dug up less than one per cent of Jamaica, yet bauxite still shapes who owns the land across the middle of the island. We mapped the holes, the leases, the owners and the unfinished repairs.

Jamaica now makes about 6 per cent of the sugar it made in 1965, but the old estates have not disappeared. This investigation follows the cane land from Tate & Lyle to the State, to a Chinese lease, to housing schemes and illegal subdivisions, and asks who holds it now.

From London’s seabed to central Bangkok, the world’s monarchies hold land in three very different ways. What the King really owns, the myth of a royal sixth of the earth, and what “Crown land” means for Jamaica.