by Ken Quintanilla

Guam - The Guam Ancestral Lands Commission and the Chamorro Land Trust Commission held a special signing ceremony this afternoon giving back land to several families. Lieutenant Governor Ray Tenorio signed one deed, returning nearly three acres of land in Barrigada back to the family of Joaquin Blas, 10 Chamorro Land Trust leases and conveyed property from the land for the landless program for seven families who paid off their contracts with land management.

Tenorio says he hopes to continue returning land so people can live the Guamanian dream, adding, "We're not in Texas where you have hectors and hectors of open land. We have very finite resource and to those people who are receiving those properties today. It's not just been a few weeks, or a few months, for some of you, it's been a lifetime."