Browsing: Squatting

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…

A public debate over squatting and urban decay points toward deeper questions about how Jamaica’s property market can address decades of informal settlement, land tenure gaps, and inner-city decline.

Jamaica’s political landscape has always been intertwined with the question of land ownership and property rights. From the colonial era…

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, 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, 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…