Dear Editor,
The Aurora Police informed me that it is not a criminal offence to remove or tamper with a surveyor’s paal, which I consider to be misleading. Such paals are planted with the specific purpose of demarcating boundaries, and there must be a provision in the law to give protection for their use. Legal recourse can be taken if someone is dissatisfied with a survey, but it cannot be right for them to take the law into their own hands by interfering with paals as was done to me.
I am the joint transport holder along with my mother for a parcel of land located at Lots 14 and 15, Sea Dam Section, Middlesex, and Essequibo Coast with the entire portion being in my possession and control.
Every so often, the area is subject to heavy flooding with many losses to rice and other agricultural crops. The only remedy for the inundation is to have the surroundings empoldered. For this to be done, it was necessary for me to know my boundaries, which only a qualified surveyor could have determined, so one was retained by me to do the job for ninety thousand dollars.
The surveyor did all that was required of him and the survey was done on Tuesday, September 7, with no one offering any objection.
Two days later on Thursday in broad daylight a man in my presence and that of my wife and two children presumptuously damaged the two iron pipes cemented in solid cast as the demarcating paals for my boundaries, and took them away.
My progress for survival is now being hampered much to my detriment, and it would only be proper for someone in authority to come to my assistance with a solution to my predicament.
The man had no right to interfere with the paals, this being the only issue here.
Yours faithfully,
Domeshwar Persaud
