Leeds Village residents to receive titles to lands

Residents of Leeds Village in Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne) will soon commence the process of getting certificates of title for their lands, after decades of waiting.
The Legal Affairs Ministry, in partnership with the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), will on Saturday visit the community to begin filing the relevant documents to regularise the lands. This has been disclosed by Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall during his weekly programme ‘Issues in the News’ on Tuesday evening.
“It’s a village that has been there since slavery was abolished. It’s one of the villages that the freed slaves bought, and since then, those people living in that village do not have titles for the land that they occupy,” he explained.
Nandlall said this exercise is aimed at empowering people across the country with land ownership, and having them no longer classified as squatters.
According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), 1,391 lots in 13 squatting areas in several regions have been regularised up to the end of July.