More than 100 Soesdyke-Linden Highway residents were yesterday allocated lands in the Village of Swan on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway by the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GLSC).
The land allocation came after the distribution of leases by President Irfaan Ali and the Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs, Kwame McCoy on Monday at Base Road, Timehri, the Department of Public information said yesterday.
Some recipients included squatters from Hill Foot and persons renting houses in various villages along the highway.
DPI spoke to a few residents who were delighted to finally become landowners.
Lovern Prince, said she feels extremely blessed to achieve something she can now call her own and will also benefit her family.
“I’m so thankful for the land that I have received, and also the lease that I signed and uplifted from the President on Monday. I want to say thank you to everybody else, especially the Lands and Survey because it is a real pleasure to me and my family for us to have our land,” Prince said.
During the land marking process, another recipient, Latoya Hudson told DPI that she is eager to start a new life with her family within the new community that will soon be developed.
“I appreciate this from the government because I have been waiting a long while for this land. My family and I were squatting in the Sand Pit before. So, now receiving my land I would start to build within the next two months,” the young mother stated.
Kenneth Florrest, who lives along the highway also expressed gratitude to the government for looking into the interests of the residents and coming through for them in such a timely manner.
“I want to say thanks very much to the government for giving us this opportunity, so that we can have our land even though it has been a little journey. The time has come for us to have what is rightfully ours and we are grateful,” Florrest told DPI.
Each resident has been given a plot of land measuring 50 feet by 100 feet.
