THE Ministry of Housing and Water has commenced a review exercise for questionable allocations made, following complaints by allottees that they feel duped out of their hard-earned monies for lands they are still to identify.

The issue was brought to the attention of the subject Minister, Collin Croal, on Wednesday, as he was conducting a series of community meetings in the West Berbice region.

According to the Housing Ministry in a press release, initial checks into recent allocations have revealed that the ownership of these lands by the agency remains in limbo.

“This is compounded by the fact that these lands have no infrastructure in place and allottees cannot even identify their lots. Given the timeframe when these allocations were made, the assumption can be made that these allocations were a mere political gimmick,” the ministry noted.
The Housing Ministry noted that, until such time when the review process is completed, in the best interest of citizens, a decision has been taken to simply put a hold on accepting payments for those allocations.

The ministry nonetheless said it remains committed to the delivery of serviced lots, with all basic infrastructure in place, inclusive of fair weather access road, water distribution network, electrical network as well as drainage network.
“We therefore want to reassure all applicants that the status of their applications will in no way be affected and they will be processed in due time,” the ministry noted.