Minister urges house lot applicants to ‘trust the system’

Minister Collin Croal (left) and Hilda Persaud, the 90-year-old house lot awardee (Ministry of Housing and Water photo)

A nonagenarian was among hundreds of individuals who were allocated house lots for low-income earners by the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s, ‘Dream Realised’ housing drive and Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, yesterday called on applicants to trust the system as the authorities are working to resolve the backlog in the system.

In a post on Facebook, the Ministry stated that the fees attached to the pensioner’s house lot were waived.

Ninety-year-old Hilda Persaud said that she was in the system since 2005 awaiting a house lot. “Since 2005 I put in and now I get answers,” the ministry quoted the woman as saying.