A section of Westmoreland after Hurricane Melissa’s rampage on October 28. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
ATTORNEY Benjamin Fraser has urged Jamaicans locally and abroad, whose homes have been effaced by Hurricane Melissa, not to vacate their lands.
“If I have my land and the building has been destroyed, I still have value in the land even though the building is not there; and you ought not to abandon the land. Losing the building doesn’t mean losing your land. Don’t abandon your land. I’m stressing this,” Fraser, who specialises in property law, estate and succession planning, and family law, said during a recent appearance on the local talk show podcast Heart to Heart hosted by Tyrell Morgan.
Fraser, in highlighting the legal definition of “land”, was at pains to point out that “the value of the land is the combination of the bare soil, vegetation, the buildings thereon, the atmosphere above the land, the potential in the land, the character in the community, and other characteristics”.
“It may look so terrible now because there has been this catastrophe that wiped out infrastructure, but I stress, don’t forget that there is value in the land itself, outside of the building,”
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