PORT LOYOLA MOBILE LAND CLINIC

“Saving the Best for Last” – DPM Hyde

On May 24, 2023, the mobile land clinic of the Ministry of Natural Resources came to the southside of Belize City in the Port Loyola Constituency. Some persons as early as six-thirty started to converge on the Young Men’s Christian Association (Y.M.C.A) for an opportunity to meet and get assistance from government officials in sorting out their land documents in some cases people have been waiting years and walked on with this title in hand.

Cordel Hyde, Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum, and Mining, “We haven’t been on the south side; we save the best for last, and we are starting in Port Loyola because Mister Gilroy has been very determined to have us here and so we are glad to be here. We are taking care of some issues for people that date back in one instance thirty-five years. So, it is those kinds of issues that we are dealing with in addition to people applying for their purchase prices, for their lease approvals and land certificates.”

This is not the first time that the ministry has held a mobile land clinic as they have been North, South, West and finally returning to Belize District and to the southside. The mobile land clinic process brings the services of the Lands Department to us the people.

Joseph Perez, Resident, Freedom Street, “I’ve been up and down in Belmopan. I’m a part of the Government of Belize, working with the government, but it is very hard to get your documents here and I don’t own any piece of land in Belize, and I am finally trying to get my documents today. I did the application, I did the filling of the land, fencing it up and I did some real development because

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