Fifty-four residents of Mocha/Arcadia, East Bank Demerara (EBD) received Titles to leased land from Minister of State, Joseph Harmon at a ceremony held at the Marks Supermarket on Friday.
According to a release from the Ministry of the Presidency, the document offers the residents a 50-year lease on the lands for a yearly rental.
The release said that the recipients are the first batch of an initial 135 residents, who first received temporary ‘Permission to Occupy’ lands in January last year from Harmon at the same location. Following the issuance of the ‘Permission to Occupy’ in 2017, the Commission has been working with residents to ensure that they meet the requirements to be granted titles. The residents, who have been occupying the land for up to 30 years, are only now receiving legal documentation for the lands, the release said.