Santa Fe, the mega-farm in the Rupununi was last month at the heart of a dispute involving land surveying which saw the intervention of President Donald Ramotar who ordered that the privately done survey be cancelled and redone by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), but the repercussions have revealed that there are divisions in the agency.
“The survey could have been done by GL&SC, but it appears that a private surveyor is being identified for the work, which could result in the loss of revenue for GL&SC of over $10 million,” Commissioner of the GL&SC Doorga Persaud said in correspondence to top officials including Ramotar and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon. In the correspondence which was seen by Stabroek News, Persaud said that following the instructions of the President, he was going to cancel all arrangements for a private surveyor to do the work in Region 9 and that the GL&SC would conduct the survey.
The GL&SC has statutory responsibility for all public lands in Guyana and based on the
