AFTER years of lobbying for ownership documents, residents of Acme Housing Scheme and the Railway Embankment in Vergenoegen, Region Three, will receive their land titles within two weeks.

Housing and Water Minister, Collin Croal made the announcement on Thursday afternoon, at a community meeting, where he disclosed that some 100 residents who have been occupying lands since the early 90s will finally receive their documents.

“Because we did some work here, there are about 65 lots on this portion, we have completed the block and occupational survey …we have completed an inventory of all the persons who occupy this stretch, we have already obtained the block title and we have submitted the sketch plans to lands and survey,” Croal said.

Minister Croal further explained that there are some 65 lots within the Acme Housing Scheme, which were occupied in the early 1990s through a Co-op.
The Co-op no longer possess ownership of the land, which affected the recording of the cadastral plan for the processing of titles.

The ministry’s Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) was approached with requests for the regularisation of the area and an inventory has since been completed.

Meanwhile, on the Vergenoegen Railway Embankment there are another 65 lots, according to a block & occupation survey.

Croal noted that an inventory has been completed and the block titles have since been obtained.

Additionally, a sketch plan was also submitted to the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) to obtain mutation parcel numbers for submission to the Land Registry.

Remaining is the completion of cadastral plan, which once completed, will see the commencement of the processing of the land titles.
Minister Croal further emphasised that the regularisation of the two areas in Vergenoegen are a crucial aspect of the ministry’s comprehensive 2023 regularisation programme for Region Three.

He highlighted that over 270 plots of land are scheduled for regularisation in various locations, including Good Hope Railway Embankment, Philadelphia Railway Embankment, Barnwell, Zeelugt, Planation De Willem, and Plantation Tuschen.

“There are a number of areas that we are committing for Region Three. We have committed that we will regularise because areas such as yours, there is an immediate decision that has to be taken if we will regularise and we have no objection to where you are occupying so we will regularise,” Croal said, adding: “In doing all of this there is one key ingredient that has to happen, that is to ascertain or to have the legal process of the transfer of the ownership of the land.”

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development will also be addressing infrastructure development in the areas, as part of the government’s commitment.