Although they won legal battles against the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), which had illegally cancelled their leases for farmlands at Seafield, West Coast Berbice, three rice farmers say their lands were nonetheless repossessed after President David Granger intervened.
As a result, farmers Philip Alexander Johnson, Rupert Blackman and Rawle Miller have asked the High Court to declare the president’s actions as unlawful and to award damages for the breach of their constitutional rights.
The Attorney General Basil Williams and the MMA-ADA were listed as the respondents in the