A Lethem taxi driver is angry over moves by a prominent businessman in the border community to take over several acres of sand-bearing land, which he has occupied for close to a decade.
According to Desmond Adams, in 2006 he had applied for and was subsequently awarded a 50-year lease for some 640 acres of land for the purposes of farming in an area north of the Old Lethem Industrial Site, close to the border with Brazil.
The Bom Success resident said that since then, he has been paying the requisite fees for the upkeep of the land and according to him he has been preparing the land for agricultural purposes. More recently, approximately five acres of the land have been set aside for
