Jeune Bailey Van Keric distributed more than 400 housing lots during the sixth zone housing drive.
Guyanese cricketer Shemaine Althea Campbell, a member of the West Indies women’s team, got the best birthday present when she received the title to her Lot 171 Bloomfield Village, Corentyne, Berbice property.
Campbell applied for land 14 years ago and was granted land in Bloomfield Village in 2015. Years later, on her 30th birthday, she added her title.
Despite the long wait, she was happy to finally receive the legal deed indicating the title to the land on which she built her house.
Campbell is the first and only woman to score a century in the One Day International (ODI) format, batting at number seven or below. Her unbeaten 105 is also the highest for any batsman in a women’s ODI innings when batting at number seven or lower.
Over 400 housing lots were distributed in addition to 262 land titles/conveyances at the event held at the Taine Campus of the University of Guyana.
In his featured speech, Housing and Water Minister Colin Croal noted that the current target is 400 housing lots, primarily in villages No. 75 and No. 76 in the Upper Corentine area.
He said a further 200 lots would be distributed at the weekend’s Berbice Show in Albion.
“We must recognize that with the commitment of acquiring additional land…we have to gear our minds that we cannot get a house lot necessarily very close to where we reside, but it’s based on the availability,” he said.