I PREVIOUSLY read with dismay about the number of existing land applications that have to be looked at by the new Housing officials and want to suggest the following which can help to alleviate this issue.The Housing Ministry must immediately start repossessing house lots and lands that have been granted to people who have not occupied them for many donkey years and re-distribute these to the many people who really need them.

One just have to take a stroll along many of the villages to see overgrown bushes and dilapidated structures have taken over many of these precious lands which have been granted to these people for many years and they have just abandoned them.

How can we have so many abandoned land for over ten, fifteen and twenty years and no one from the housing ministry followed up to ensure that houses were built on these lots. This is shameful. I have just returned from the USA after seventeen years and near my home there are over nine house lots that were granted to people who never occupied them.

I sincerely ask our new Government to please start sending notices of repossession to these people in an effort to ensure that these are enforced if they cannot meet the deadline.

SAM RONVI