Samuel Cordis, 93, a former occupant of Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo, on Tuesday testified that the lands in the area are private.
Cordis, who now resides at Dartmouth, on the Essequibo Coast, made the claim while appearing before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) established to investigate ancestral land matters.
“…The people of Good Hope seem to believe that Good Hope is government land; it is not. Good Hope belongs to me and people like myself. Twenty one people bought that estate, one opted out…,” Cordis related to the commission from the witness stand.
