Public hearings will be held by the Lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) beginning on Monday, August 21, according to an advertisement in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek.
The hearings will be convened at the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) on Hadfield Street.
This commission had been a source of controversy after the National Toshaos Council (NTC) and other Amerindian groups vehemently objected to the inquiry combining Amerindian land titling matters with the claims of the descendants of freed Africans.
The controversy caused Minister of State Joseph Harmon to subsequently say that the CoI on lands will not be dealing with Indigenous and ancestral land issues together, but as two separate issues.