No sooner had President David Granger, in his address to the Fourth Annual State of the African Guyanese Forum at the Critchlow Labour College in August 2016, declared that his government intended to ‘establish a Lands Commission in order to rectify the anomalies and resolve the controversies which, up to now surround thousands of hectares of communal lands which were purchased in the post-Emancipation Village Movement,’ the Indian Action Committee (IAC) was on his case. ‘The only agency that is legally authorized to deal with land and land issues,’ that body claimed, ‘is the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), which was established by an act of Parliament.’
