{"id":26175,"date":"2025-02-08T21:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26175"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:06:36","slug":"minister-croal-urges-linden-residents-to-avoid-squatting-as-housing-development-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/minister-croal-urges-linden-residents-to-avoid-squatting-as-housing-development-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Croal Urges Linden Residents to Avoid Squatting as Housing Development Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Jacquey Chacon | January 6, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, has issued a stern warning to residents of Linden, urging them to avoid squatting as the government continues its efforts to regularize house lots in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made during a recent address to residents in Victory Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal emphasized the government&#8217;s commitment to improving the lives of citizens and ensuring land ownership for those living on unallocated plots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that under the &#8216;Operation Clean Up&#8217; campaign, efforts will be made to formalize land ownership in various areas across the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is aimed at ensuring that every resident has rightful ownership of the land they occupy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister pointed out that Linden, specifically Fitz Hope, had seen challenges related to squatting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these difficulties, the government has already regularized 442 lots in the area, providing legal ownership to those who previously occupied the land without proper authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, the Ministry successfully regularized over 750 lots and allocated more than 1,600 house lots across the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal noted that ten priority areas have been identified for regularization, including Silver Hill on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, Siberian and Coomacka in the Mines, West Watooka, and Blocks E and F in Canvas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also highlighted that Region Ten is the only region in the country with 100% treated water, showcasing the government&#8217;s ongoing efforts to improve infrastructure and living conditions for its citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacquey Chacon | January 6, 2025 Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, has issued a stern warning to residents of Linden, urging them to avoid squatting as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26176,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175\/revisions\/26176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}