HINDSIGHT, FORETHOUGHT & RANFOREST REALITIES

AN OPEN/LETTER/REQUEST TO GUYANA LANDS & SURVEYS COMMISSION

Dear Commissioner:Re: Requesting Permission To Allocate Land At YUKURIBA HEIGHTS Yukuriba Falls Essequibo River, To Associates Of YUKURIBA CREATIVE FARMING COMMUNITY (YCFC) For Beneficial Use As Curators & ‘Conscience’ Of The Guyana Rainforest.
After reading your warning notice, we hasten to inform you that we’ve already launched YCFC with an informal occasion on May 15, 2016. At that event we announced we’re setting aside three (3) acres for the Burrowes School of Art to establish a Philip Moore Retreat. We’re also creating a Maroon Sculpture Trail dedicated to ‘Maroons of the Americas’.
In pursuit our mission to be as significant for THE ARTS & THE HUMANITIES as the Iwokrama Community at Kurupukari is to SCIENCE, we propose to undertake a number of other such initiaves requiring the “allocation” of portions of the land at Yukuriba Falls focused on the cultivation and production of organic food as well as ideas for sustenance and the overal benefit of the Guyanse nation.
As for *beneficially occuppying the land, please note Mr Commissioner, that we were enthusiastically doing this when we were crudely interrupted by a lengthy court case occasioned by the Guyana Land Commission’s cashier informing me one day as I attempted to pay my provisional lease –
“Ms Cambridge, they instructed me not to take any money from you for Yukuriba Falls.” This was all part of the widespread conspiracy by the previous administration served by the Guyana Lands Commission, to dispossess African Guyanese like myself of our lands, through the facilitation and protection of squatters.
…so to the Courts – RE: 5033/95 App. J. Cambridge –v- Ministry of Lands & Surveys
…a battle lasting almost eight years, during which The Guyana Lands & Surveys Commission eventually informed the Judge: “…we cannot continue with this case…we can’t seem to find Ms Cambridge’s file.” Fortunately, I was able to produce a copy of my file with every document relevant to the case; which fact facilitated the outcome. I/we won that case and have since been striving to get back to that place, that point at which we were so crudely (there’s no other way to say it) interrupted. See Synopsis Yukuriba Story (attached)
All of the above (and more) Mr Commissioner, is indeed why I’m respectfully…publicly, herewith requesting (as set out in the above Caption) your permission to – continue allocating land at ‘YUKURIBA HEIGHTS’, Yukuriba Falls, Essequibo River, to enterprises allied with YUKURIBA CREATIVE FARMING COMMUNITY (YCFC) as Curators & ‘Conscience’ Of The Guyana Rainforest.
…trusting your response will be early, as well as positive.
A LUTA CONTINUA!
Joan Cambridge; Lease # A12321
*Note: Though other crops have not survived the years of attrition, we believe the (250) coffee plants we put down at Yukuriba Heights must have even multiplied…

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