As 63-year-old Farida Khan sat in the room to receive her Certificate of Title (CoT) for her house lot she cried tears of joy, knowing that it was finally happening six generations later, starting with her great grandparents who came from India as indentured labourers.
Khan of Uitvlugt Side Line Dam, West Coast Demerara, was among 76 squatters out of 174, who received their CoT recently from Minister of Housing & Water, Collin Croal at the Greenwich Park Primary School.
Farida, the fourth generation to occupy the land, told Stabroek News in an interview that she was “very happy because I live here for so long… Meh eye water leak in there just now because I never see wah name title. Meh mother and father never see title yet. I got my two children here and my granddaughter born here too.”
