LAMP II : a land registration project in Jamaica
Koh, Munsung & Garfield Knight
Jamaica is a middle income country (World Bank 2010), with almost half of its population residing in suburban areas and dependant on the land for agriculture. Less than 40 percent of the suburban areas in Jamaica are registered, most of which, however, remains outdated and these conditions lead to difficulties in developing land, proving ownership and even property taxation. The strict land law requirement and long processing time incurred by the Jamaican title registration system had been recognized as the main hindrance for land registration. To facilitate the process, the Government of Jamaica had commenced Land Administration and Management Programme(LAMP) in 2000, which aimed to assist land holders without titles to obtain land title, and installed continuously operating reference stations (CORS) in a national scale to assist better land surveying services by Network-RTK activation. Besides, it introduced a Special Provisions Act to supplement the existing Registration of Titles Act and conducted a pilot for cadastral mapping of 25,000 parcels of land. However, such endeavors did not fully assist land holders to obtain their land titles despite the improvement of the legal and technical surveying environment.
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