The residents of Meadowsvale, Pitfour Phase 3 and Retirement Phases 1 and 2, were presented with the titles during a handover ceremony at the Dawn Christadelphian Bible Centre in Retirement Phase 2, St James on May 8.
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Pearnel Charles Jr, encouraged the recipients to make sure to know the value of their titles and the uses of the documentation.
“If you have your house on the land, you can use it to go and leverage a mortgage to expand your house. If you don’t want to build or expand, and you simply want to pass it on, you can use the title to pass on officially, in a secure way…, to anyone that you wish.
“So this is an important day; this is a day when you are handed the authority to organise your own life,” Charles Jr outlined.
He said close to 1,500 titles are available for residents who occupy properties in the Meadowsvale, Pitfour and Retirement communities.
“Just in this area, Meadowsvale, you have 73 titles that have already been issued (and) 327 are still available for completion and collection; Pitfour 3, 42 that have been issued and 83 available for completion and collection,” Charles Jr stated.
Chairman of the HAJ, Norman Brown, encouraged informal land owners in the communities to complete outstanding payments for their lands, so that they can collect their titles.
“When you get a title in your hand, it is tremendous. I implore all of us today, when you receive yours, don’t keep it a secret. Tell your neighbour ‘I got mine, you can get yours too’, and then you start to develop your community, because you will have access to adequate resources,” Brown stated.
