Some farmers of Laluni on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway are fearful of losing their farmlands after a 25-acre plot of land was recently demarcated by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission.
The farmers say they were told that the land is intended for Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai. Repeated attempts to contact Minister Sukhai for a comment on the situation were fruitless and this newspaper was told that she was busy and would return a call at a convenient time. This was never done.
The concerns of at least six families and some youths from the area who say they would be affected if the land is taken away were related to a group led by Valerie Garrido-Lowe of the Alliance For Change (AFC) during a recent visit to the Region 10 community.
According to information from the AFC, the group of officials visited the area and was told that on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, surveyors from the Lands and Survey Commission went into Laluni and started placing boundary markers within approximately three acres of farmlands belonging to the six families.
The farmers expressed concern over the possibility of their lands being taken away, since most of the land which is being marked off is already under cultivation and farming is their livelihood.
Kamini and Elroy Henry, who have been residing at Laluni for 33 years, inherited land from a relative and are
