With nearly one million parcels of land on the Government’s valuation roll, minister with responsibility for Land and Titling Robert Montague predicts it will take up to 20 years for Jamaica to fully sort out its titling issues. Montague also warned that this will only be possible if the Administration has the full cooperation of the public, and would take “longer without it”.

“We have a problem,” he declared Tuesday during his contribution to the sectoral debate in the House of Representatives.

Montague shared that of roughly 970,000 parcels of land, 550,000 have titles. He also pointed out that because of informal subdivisions, “most of our lands do not have a registered title and more do not have the title registered in the current occupant’s name”.