$447M Deeds & Commercial Registry on Essequibo Coast for completion this month – AG – INews Guyana
Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) will soon get a more efficient Deeds and Commercial Registry with a spanking new multi-storey building valued $447 million. This is according to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, who disclosed that the facility will be opened at the end of March.
Currently the registry is housed under the High Court, at Suddie, Essequibo Coast.
“Members of the public from the Essequibo Coast will enjoy proper amenities… [and] a better atmosphere,” the AG said during his weekly programme “Issues in the News.”
The building will be equipped with an elevator, parking facilities and a storage vault for documents.
The contract for the construction of the building was awarded in October 2022 to the tune of $447.8 million to JAICAM Constructions and Services Inc.
The Deeds Registry is responsible for the matters relating to land titles, filing powers of attorney and deed poll for name changes among other similar transactions. The commercial arm of the registry deals with company registrations, registration of businesses, incorporation of companies, registration of mortgages and more.
With the new office in place, over two hundred residents of Walton Hall will receive their land transports for lands originally owned by a Co-op Society which is now defunct.
Nandlall explained that the members of the Co-op Society are now deceased, and the Government decided to assist in the issuance of transport for the lots. “The government conducted an occupational survey for the homestead and the agriculture lands and we are regularising all the occupants, both in relation to the house lots and the cultivation plots,” he said.
This is different from the process of regularisation undertaken by the Central Housing and Planning Authority in other areas.
Free of cost, the government has completed similar exercises on the West Coast of Berbice and will soon be doing the same for residents in the Pomeroon.
“You can’t put a value on these services…there is no government that offers this type of service any part of the world. There is no Attorney General or no Minister of Legal Affairs offering this type of service. That is the difference of your government,” Nandlall posited.
Meanwhile, the Legal Affairs Ministry will also be commissioning a Magistrates’ Court at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara(EBD). The cost of the facility is approximately $388 million, the AG said.
He noted that this court will significantly benefit the growing population in surrounding areas.
