The Ministry of Housing will roll out a new online portal from March 1 to speed up the processing of house-lot applications for Region Four residents who applied in 2021 and earlier.
Minister of Housing Collin Croal made the disclosure while engaging residents during a two-day outreach in Corriverton, Region Six, on Saturday. He said the digital platform is intended to help the ministry move faster in verifying and managing the large volume of applications from Guyana’s most populous region.
According to the minister, the portal will allow applicants to review and update key information submitted at the time of application, including contact numbers and home addresses, which may have changed since the person first applied.
He explained that once the portal goes live, applicants will also be able to check and confirm whether their names are in the ministry’s database, noting that the ministry will draw from that pool to identify and recognise persons with earlier applications.
Meanwhile, Croal assured Region Six residents that the ministry remains focused on clearing the backlog of applications in their region. However, he cautioned that faster processing for Region Four applicants will take longer due to the scale of demand.
“Region Four itself has over 50,000 pending applicants,” the minister noted, pointing to the size of the backlog the ministry is working to address.
