anybody can help Tony here

You are in for big and long troubles. There is no easy answer as all instances are different. In my case it is a few houselots in our family for almost a hundred years where the new overseer decides it belong to the government and not us and refuses to accept rates and taxes on it for which we of course has receipts dating back to the dark ages. I was trying to consolidate everything and make sure each family member got their share and this obstinate fellow on no other grounds insist it is the property of the state.

 

We even had a case which we won in the 70's where the owner to the lot in front had to move his fence since he fenced off part of the property. The courts is no help. If you have no one squatting, making claims that you sold it to them etc you are fine. Otherwise you are in for a long struggle.

 

We also had a previous case where some people decided to dig a canal across our land. They said the minister then give them authority to dig there. It took us 6 years to reclaim the land and that was over some 13 years ago and the judge is still to write it up and award damages and court cost. There is no justice system in Guyana worth anything.

 

You can have all your documents and it matter not. You still have to wait years if someone wants to make trouble  and Guyanese are land hungry and squat on any vacant lot or house.  A friend told me of a case where he was passing his father house and some one was painting it. They had just "bought" it from the cousin they let live in it.

Dont hand your land to know one unless you are absolutely sure.  I can tell you stories about that with family.

If the opposition proposes a bill to remedy problems relating to ownership of land in Guyana I would give them my support. Instead of doing something that will good for all they are only interested in power.

 

SAD for all Guyanese

Chameli. I hear your frustration, but, the most valuable thing on this earth is land. This is why I told my dad to go through this pain in the ass to make sure that land is kept in the family. His lot is only a small lot across from Leonora government school, but, it is his heritage and it needs to be kept in the family.

He was able to get the morons out of his house. He tore it down and it is now just an empty lot.

He has the land transport, but it is still in his late fathers name. He is trying to get it transferred, but we keep hearing nonsense stories from the court, etc.

I am looking for names of people in Guyana who we can contact to get this stupid thing done. Something that should take a few days takes months or years in that stupid country.

Be a friend of the PPP government and they will move Mt. Roraima to New York for you. They already moving the Guyana forest to China.

You doing things backwards going through normal channels.

Guyana is no normal place. A bottle of vodka will plough an acre for you at Black Bush. Shit about safety, they will even do it while drunk.

Guyana is beyond Hope, see Stallone First Blood.    

They cannot take the land and do not give up. Land is worth a lot. I also had people on my land for eons. Those people moved to Connecticut and rented it to their family. I see the family and they tell me they cannot pay me rent because they rented it from someone else. Meanwhile they were planting 2 crops yearly for close to 20 years. I finally got the land back when the old man keeled over and died and another group turned up to plant it.  We were able to get an injunction against them because they just turned up from nowhere. I am not renting a square inch to any one ever. I rather it turned into a black sage grove and then I will call it a bird sanctuary.

 The communist PPP have no land court. When it sits it is just for a few months. Property rights is fundamental to any economy, When it is not secured the economy suffer. Maybe jagdeo and Ramotar never learn that in economics class since one went to Lumumba U where all they did was mint communists and the other went to UG where he did not pay much attention to the history of economics.

I have heard lots of stories about land problems in Guyana....some family members had to travel several times to Guyana to take care of these ongoing issues

The Corrupt PPP/C in Action, if you are from the USA and you go back to Guyana to settle some transport issues, be prepared to spend a fortune, people right in Guyana have land issues for years, seven maybe eight, nine or ten, and yet they cannot get anywhere in resolving same.