THE Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission is ensuring that the commission‘s record-keeping facility is at its optimum.

This is the view expressed by Commissioner of the Commission, Trevor Benn, during an interview on DPI’s programme “One on One”.
Benn made the point that, for years, the issue of record-keeping continues to be an issue but the commission is working assiduously to address the situation.
He said that “I have insisted on the staff that we must respond to every piece of correspondence that comes in to us even if it is just an acknowledgement”.
One of the issues facing the commission is the audit.

Benn noted that the commission has not been audited since 2009, and he will not preside over an agency that does not have an updated audit.
Since assuming the post in 2016, Benn indicated that the commission is working on completing the audit for 2015.

The Commissioner made the point that the agency cannot account for some of the resources to sustain functionality of the commission and as such the agency is working to update its electronic data.

Trevor Benn said that when he assumed office in 2016, there was very little use of the commission’s electronic data but that had since changed.
The Commission is also working assiduously to ensure that citizens can access relevant and critical information via electronic data right in the comfort of their own homes instead of visiting the office.

Commissioner Benn noted that, for the first time, residents of Matthew’s Ridge in Region One have, in their possession, land titles.

This, he said, was welcoming news for the commission, since the agency will ensure that citizens, throughout the ten administrative regions of the country, have land titles.