The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is currently addressing an ongoing dispute between a Lethem taxi driver and a businessman in the area over a parcel of sand-bearing land on the outskirts of the Rupununi community.
Taxi driver Desmond Adams had told Stabroek News during a recent visit to the border community that the parcel of land which he had occupied over a six-year period was being taken away from him.
However, according to an official of the GLSC, Adams was never awarded a lease for the land and is in fact squatting on the property. The official said too that the matter is currently before the
