THE LAWS OF GUYANA SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS

In this article, I have raised the question and even wrote the then Minister of Education on the question of including most likely areas of the legal system that the ordinary man concerned with his own livelihood could possibly encounter, and suffer dire consequences, if he/she has no awareness of the CSEC subject of Office Procedure. Then I referred to the inclusion and explanation of the ‘Power of Attorney’ and the ‘Letter of administration.’ My interest in this article is the ‘Letter of abandonment’. Is it a finale, or does it have a mystical legal loophole of resurrection? I have a scenario that constitutes more of a ‘Case Study’ that is ideal to pose the questions and we can then hope that a legal mind can add some clarity on.” Andy Mongoose bought a piece of real estate from Dainty Kumaka, but during the final advertising period granted for objections, an objection as filled by Deity Dagon. But Dagon, who filed the objection never followed up through the court to legally test the merit of the objection for the duration of a year. Thus, Andy Mongoose, with a significant financial investment made, after the year with no movement by Dagon, filed for a “Letter OF Abandonment”and the wise custodians of the integrity of fairness of the ‘Land’ granted the Certificate of abandonment; subsequent to that, the transport was passed to Andy Mongoose, all would conclude that the matter was a subject of history.

But how then the surreal ascends the stage. Deity Dagon steps back into time, obviously to the period ‘legally lost to no-action taken’. However, Dagon is in the present; thus, Dagon is aspiring to have the very passed Transport to Andy Mongoose set aside. The question is, how is this possible? It must be contemplated if the laws are logical in its conclusions, then how can the illogical be entertained? Then what is the esoteric aspects in that law that defies logic and due process?

This case study would be a subject of swift understanding for any literate child to be able to interpret to relatives or family friends in such a predicament, who may be challenged and would be vulnerable in the presence of a social hustler, where perhaps a Lawyer was not explicit, nor verified what a client really understood. We are a nation of great suspicions, justifiably so, somewhere a better understanding of laws especially in respect should persist on ‘real estate.’ It is obvious that there is a maze of the not comprehended to be penetrated towards clarifications in the area of Real Estate Law. Real Estate contentions are a crisis because causes are not addressed, simple explorations would reveal that behind most of our ‘fires, suspected as arson’ and a significant percentage of domestic murders revolve around dishonesty in real estate transaction distribution, through partners who are not literate and depend on trust and goodwill to facilitate them, but end up with their names omitted from passed transports, and justifiably in a state of confusion and betrayal react an extreme way. This article addressed an area of the law that would be only known to persons implicated in the sequence of events to which a ‘Letter of Abandonment’ becomes relevant.

The other areas that frequently affect the citizen untutored in legal matters is the ‘Power of Attorney’ a legal instrument that embodies trust, responsibility and the character to do the right thing. This instrument, if lured into the hands of the wrong person, can result in tremendous misery. I know one particular incident with a poster boy ‘Activist’ who convinced a family of villagers to place their lands in his guardianship, they did so, he immediately activated the full Power Attorney right, and sold the lands to himself. The ‘Power Attorney’ instrument however ends with the death of the designator, and while all are alive it is required to be renewed, I think annually.

The other instrument is the Letter of Administration, which requires the participation of other eligible relatives or concerns in its execution. We do have a large population of citizens who are literarily challenged and need knowledge of systems and procedures broken down to understand enough to rise above the type of confusion that can result to legal disenfranchisement and ‘honour retaliations’ that cover our headlines in respect to the frequent murders almost daily across the country.

As one friend instructed me on the reality of his opinion, that “Bro, people dishonest, in this time here, people gon look in yuh face and test yuh, is either yuh weakout, and deh tek yuh thing, or yuh find a way fuh deal wid it. Yuh with meh?… Yuh got fuh mash some people, even if yuh’s a good man.” Somewhere beyond just obvious criminal hustle lies a horizon of arrogant pseudo legality, that is postulating as legal with intent, but is not; only enlightenment of the vulnerable and vigilant legal checks and balances in place with severe consequences, can alter the rise of toxic counter alternatives.

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