The time to act is now

Oct 07, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Over the last few days, a number of investors/land developers have reportedly given up lands allegedly allocated to them via a non-transparent process by NICIL (Corum Group, Navigant Builders Inc and Cardiology Services Inc). It has also been reported that the Guyana Lands and Survey Commissioner seems to have also made a number of dubious land allocation under the former administration.
It, therefore, seems that land giveaways were the recipe of the APNU administration. The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) another land agency was and seems is no exception. Just prior to elections large swath of forest lands (perhaps millions of acres) were hurriedly advertise to be allocated. Yet to date the Government has not seen it fit to tell the public where this large swath of forest has gone, has it been allocated, and to whom.
These are public assets and the public has a right to know. Why like the other lands as mentioned above has not been returned (assumed it has been allocated) to the State to be allocated in a fair and transparent manner. Why the responsible parties or officers of the GFC have not been prosecuted for this. We the small community groups who have voted for the PPP have been applying and applying for lands and have not been getting and often being told we have no capacity. We are therefore calling on the Government and the responsible Minister of Forestry to investigate the mismanagement and corrupt practices at the GFC and within the forestry sector. Numerous cases of alleged corruption have been ventilated in the media over the past two years.
As such, we call on the government to prove to the public especially to hard-working forest operators that you intend to stamp out corruption at the GFC and in the sector. The PPP campaign on transparency and accountability, the time to act is now.

Sincerely
S. Ramsundar

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