I am the transported owner of a property located at 22 Bel Air Village, Georgetown, Guyana. The said property is the last lot in the Bel Air Primary School street, and is located next to the Railway Embankment road. I bought this property in 1999 and like all transported properties next to the Railway Embankment Road, the owners have occupied the reserve or a part of the reserve that exists between their property and the Railway Road. When I bought lot 22 Bel Air Village in 1999 there was a chain-link fence around the property that was extended to the adjoining reserve. I did not buy the reserve. As a Guyanese who has grown up along the coastland, I was very much aware about the reserves that exist next to the roadways and railway embankments. The chain-link fence had been in a very poor state and in 2000 I upgraded the fence with concrete.
I sold lot 22 Bel Air Village to a Latchminia Basdeo in 2001. I sold just what I owned according to my transport – an area consisting of decimal .117th of an acre. I did not sell the reserve. At that time Latchminia Basdeo was the wife of Patrick Seebarran of Patsan Trading, and he would sometimes be the person who would speak on her behalf when I visited her to discuss the transfer of title and payment of money due to me. I gave the purchaser a copy of my transport four weeks prior to the signing of the agreement for them to verify my ownership of lot 22 Bel Air Village.
The price of the property 11 years ago was seven million Guyana dollars, three and a half million dollars of which was paid to me by Patrick Seebarran. He paid the money on behalf of his wife Latchminia Basdeo, with whom I had entered into sales agreement. It was agreed that the balance of three and a half million dollars would be paid at the time of transfer of the transport into the name of Latchminia Basdeo.  However, about two weeks after the signing of the agreement, Patrick Seebrarran of Patsan Trading telephoned and informed me that even though I sold him decimal .117 of an acre that I own by transport, the fence was farther out, and his wife would not pay me what she has agreed to pay in the sales agreement. They offered me less and I refused. I maintained that we should stick to our agreement. I owned lot 22 Bel Air and I sold just the transported plot that I owned.
Patrick Seebarran alleges that I sold them the reserve, but there is no document or proof of this. I was arrested several times by members of the Guyana Police Force, taken on the Georgetown seawall and beaten after I refused to give a confession statement that I had sold the reserve. I always maintained that I sold what I owned.
In the year 2002 I retained the service of an attorney and I took the wife of Patrick Seebarran to the Supreme Court on a motion of Specific Performance. I wanted them to take their title and pay me what was due to me as per the Agreement of Sale. The matter was repeatedly  postponed and I was advised that it had to be taken to another court. All my attempts to get my money ended in failure and frustration. I migrated and was stuck abroad for 10 years. It is worth much more today than it was worth 10 years ago. Latchminia Basdeo cannot be found, but the property is still being occupied even thought the contract was breached 10 years ago.