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Increase pound fees to deter the practice of carefree animal owners

Jan 12, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

Government’s responsibility to curb the stray cattle nuisance within my district in Region Two, which stretches from Pomeroon to Supenaam, is urgently necessary with the enactment of legislation for a significant increase in pound fees to serve as a deterrent to the “carefree” owners of the animals.

The current fee of $1,000 is too negligible, and it should be upped to as much as $10,000 to bring some relief to the unbearable predicament facing not only me, but many other farmers here as well.

Stray cattle, ever so regularly, are causing extensive damage to my rice cultivation, which requires much financing to get a proper yield on some 23 acres of open land located by the Onderneeming Sand Pit Road.

Be it night or day, the plot of land in one block becomes a grazing ground for cows, whose owners just loose their cattle to roam wildly about the place with no concern for the suffering caused to others.

Many a time I had to pay men to assist me in catching the animals with the use of lassoes, the task not being easy at all.

The majority of these animals usually get away, and when those that are caught are impounded, the same situation recurs, because of the negligible pound fee which means nothing to the owners.

Some of the animals, although being so big and old, are not branded, which makes it all the more difficult to identify the owners in the event of litigation to seek compensation.

Presently, two such animals still remain unclaimed in the Suddie Police Station compound; but should the owners turn up to redeem them, prosecution should be enforced, as provided by law, for failing to brand same within a prescribed time after birth, and for having no brand.

Very often, these animals are branded right in the station compound; but for reasons best known to the police, the owners do not face prosecution, only to abuse the leniency extended them.

Kenrick Boyce

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