GL&SC rejects claims to land near planned Crab Island oil facility

Attorney Rexford Jackson

Six persons are claiming lands north of Crab Island, Berbice, where a major oil support facility is to be built but the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) says that the swathes in question belong to the state.

The six had raised objections after the GL&SC had invited tenders for the development of the land surrounding the planned oil facility. The six argue that the land belonged to them and they have transports dating back to 1925.  An advertisement placed by the group in yesterday’s Stabroek News said, “All lands situate within Lots 1-37 Right Bank of Berbice River; below Crab Island, East Coast Berbice, Kintyre/ Borlam are privately owned. No State Lands exist between the Original Sea Defence Dam and the foreshore of the North Atlantic”.