GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno, gdumat-ol@guampdn.com
March 12, 2016
A former part-time judge, who’s also a former senator, wants accountability from a public keeper of certificates of title of all land parcels on the island.
Robert Klitzkie, a former part-time Superior Court judge and a two-time senator, is calling out the office of the Registrar of Titles, under the Department of Land Management, to be accountable and transparent. The integrity of the office is in doubt, Klitzkie said, following what he called the “erroneous” information on certificates of title for four land parcels and buildings that once were valued at tens of millions of dollars.
The former Accion Hotel properties stand at the center of a dispute within Guam’s Catholic Church community. Part of the disagreement between the church leadership and the Concerned Catholics of Guam is whether the prime real estate still is under the control of the Archdiocese of Agana.
Certificates of title for the four parcels, which the church leadership released to the public in late November, are “bogus,” Klitzkie said. The certificates omit the required disclosure of another document called declaration of deed of restriction, Klitzkie contends.
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