Government is set to overhaul its “outdated and archaic” land transaction process to make it easier to buy a piece of the rock and make the country more competitive, according to Prime Minister Mia Mottley.She told a colloquium hosted by the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Maintenance at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on Friday the current system was impeding economic growth and needed urgent reform.The transformation of the process, through digitisation, would improve efficiency and attract more foreign investment. She stressed that Barbados risked being left behind if it did not adapt to the digital age.Mottley said: “If this country does not move from an analogue environment into a digital environment, we are going to be left along the way. Barbados does not have what it takes to be able to say to the world with magic, come here and don’t go anywhere else. We have to earn our way in this world, and we earn our way by being attractive and competitive. And, therefore, a system that was designed in the middle of the 19th century cannot now be a system that is propelling Barbados into the fourth decade of the 21st century.”
