Whose Shoreline Is It?
René Ammann | 12. de gener 2026
Ten thousand new hotel rooms are expected in Jamaica by 2030, according to the BBC, with more than 2,000 rooms being built in Montego Bay, pictured here a decade ago. (Photo: will.jones, cropped from original at Wikimedia Commons)
Share of the coastline of Jamaica that is accessible to the island's residents, as the state sold most of the 1,022-kilometer (635-mile) coastline to foreign builders, where there is no public right for Jamaicans to swim or access the beach without a license: 0.6%