Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is says each par­cel of land in To­ba­go will be giv­en a unique iden­ti­fy­ing num­ber, sim­i­lar to the one found giv­en on birth cer­tifi­cates and the process will be­gin in Jan­u­ary 2019.

She made the com­ment dur­ing yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing at the Mag­dale­na Grande Re­sort in To­ba­go.

“Each par­cel will be care­ful­ly iden­ti­fied, just as we have a unique iden­ti­fi­er for births and deaths in Trinidad and To­ba­go ... each par­cel of land will be treat­ed sim­i­lar­ly,” Robin­son-Reg­is told re­porters.

She said the process will re­quire GIS map­ping, which will be done by the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Lands and Fish­eries and the ap­point­ment of sur­vey­ors to en­sure each par­cel of land is ac­cu­rate­ly sur­veyed and record­ed in the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al De­part­ment and at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture.

Robin­son-Reg­is said the Gov­ern­ment passed six pieces of leg­is­la­tion which were as­sent­ed to by the Pres­i­dent to ad­dress the land tenure is­sues.

“They are the Val­u­a­tion of Land Amend­ment Act, 2018; the Prop­er­ty Tax Amend­ment Act, 2018; the Reg­is­tra­tion of Ti­tles to Land Amend­ment Act, 2018; the State Suites Lim­i­ta­tion Act, 2018; the Land Tri­bunal Amend­ment Act, 2018 and the Land Ad­ju­di­ca­tion Amend­ment Act 2018,” she an­nounced.

The amend­ed laws seek to en­sure that the sit­u­a­tion that has plagued To­ba­go with re­gard to land ti­tles are rec­ti­fied, she said.

Robin­son-Reg­is said the mat­ter re­lat­ing to the route of land ti­tles, which gives a his­to­ry of the own­er­ship of the land at dif­fer­ent pe­ri­ods of time, will al­so be ad­dressed through the amend­ed laws.

“We are hop­ing that the route of ti­tles will be cleared so that per­sons who have dif­fi­cul­ty iden­ti­fy­ing the route of their ti­tles for their land, the leg­is­la­tion is go­ing to clear that.”

She said the Gov­ern­ment will un­der­take the cost of the en­tire land ti­tle project.