The Electronic Land-Titling Project, which seeks to enhance the land-registration process, is to get under way in April. To commence the initial project activity, a sum of $60 million has been set aside in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. For the 2021/22 period under the project, it is anticipated that a Project Management Office...

Strata corporations have been given the green light to conduct their general meetings via video conferencing in light of the restrictions on public gatherings due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Supreme Court made the order on February 16, following an application by the Commission of Strata Corporations in late 2020. Chief Executive Officer of the Commission of Strata Corporations,...

The Government is in the process of developing legislation to govern the operations of shared residential and commercial developments that are not strata properties. This was disclosed by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, who informed that legislation is now being promulgated following extensive research on the matter. “Jamaica has a wide cross section of residential and...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is working on designing a “cookie-cutter solution” for the National Social Housing Programme (NSHP) that will be more cost-effective. “We need a solution that meets all the requirements of a house that is strong, durable, comfortable, aesthetically appealing, easy on construct, that you can just come and within a few...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is working assiduously to expand the system and process of land and home ownership in Jamaica. Speaking recently (February 11) at the handing over ceremony of National Housing Trust (NHT) service lots in Hellshire,  St. Catherine, the Prime Minister said: “What the Government is doing, is expanding the process, the system of home...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says another 114 projects are expected to come on stream under the National Social Housing Programme, with an estimated value of $1.17 billion. The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation has oversight for the construction of these homes, under the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme. The programme was developed to...

The National Land Agency (NLA) is encouraging Jamaicans to trust the process of systematic land registration being undertaken by the agency and allow it to work for their benefit. The process aims to assist persons in obtaining the titles for property they have lived on undisturbed and undisputed for upwards of 12 years. “Systematic land registration is new; it is...