Toshaos up pressure on gov’t over land inquiry

Chairman of the National Toshao Council Joel Fredericks (seated fourth from left) along with Vice-Chairman Lennox Shuman (seated third from left) at the press conference yesterday, along with other executive members of the Council.

The National Toshaos Council yesterday upped the pressure on the Granger administration over its decision to set up a commission to address both Amerindian land titling and the claims of freed Africans.

The indigenous leaders called for a separation of the two issues.

Speaking yesterday, at a press conference at the FLEGT Facilitator Support Office on New Market Street, NTC Chairman Joel Fredericks said that despite the CoI being launched two months ago, the Council, which represents some 80,000 persons and is made up of 212 leaders, was