Housing Ministry regularizes 67 lots in Mon Repos North

The Ministry of Housing has regularized 67 lots and handed out 40 titles to residents of Mon Repos, North in a community known as De Endragt.

During the handing over ceremony on Friday, Housing Minister Collin Croal, said the administration has been on an operation to regularize areas historically designated as squatting areas, where persons do not possess any form of ownership for the lands they occupy.

In the case of Mon Repos North, the Minister said some of the persons have been living in the area for more than fifty years without any documentation to show for their property.

‘Many of you your parents were the original occupiers of this area, you are the next generation, you are the inheritors, but certainly what you were going through in terms of uncertainty, your children their future are now secured,” Minister Croal said.

The Minister explained that the government has since regularized over 1,600 lots in 13 squatting areas. This initiative he said, is part of an ongoing effort to formalise housing and improve living conditions.

“We are committed. We are committed as a team, we are committed as a government to ensure that every citizen, no matter where you live must be able to live a better quality of live and have a better lifestyle and in the housing sector, in addition to making opportunities for home ownership is also ensuring that persons are able to sign for their agreement and titles and receive their document,” the Minister said.

The Minister said a similar focus will now be placed on some squatting areas in Enmore on the East Coast and Mocha Arcadia on the East Bank. He said the government has already regularized a number of lots in Bachelor’s Adventure (Bare Root), Chateau Margot, and 76 in Annandale Railway.