Dear Editor,
I read in the media recently about the Public Outreach and Engagement which was held in one of the outlying regions of Guyana. This was done by the Attorney General’s Chambers.
There are a number of people who live in villages along the Demerara River, away from Timehri Docks who also have issues with the land that they own.
Because most of the owners are now dead and the children migrated from the villages, their plots of land appear abandoned. There are a few cases where someone sold such lands unaware of the owners. This was so because they knew the legal system a bit and knew a few lawyers and others who are engaged in underhand businesses.
For the ordinary person, dealing with lawyers and judges is an endless go-around, and paying unnecessary money for consultation and the like.
They would prefer to let things remain as they are and be the losers.
In one instance the people in the village had to submit their land transport to a government surveyor to facilitate the surveying of the lands in the village. This was sometime during the 60s. Some people did not retrieve their document, my father being one of them, he died in the late 70s. We, the children know our land where we grew up. We have no transport to verify.
So, because of issues as the above, among others that others have, and which are festering, there is a need for assistance from people who can help solve these problems.
I write on behalf of others and myself for the intervention of such an outreach from the AGs Chambers. Such a meeting will help to address decades of uncertainty of how to go about dealing with legal issues in land ownership.
Such an outreach with ample notice should have a venue somewhere around the docks area.
Yours truly,
(Name and address supplied)
