–AG Nandlall says

MINISTER of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, S.C., on Tuesday, challenged trade unionist Lincoln Lewis to produce documents related to land claims in Kingelly village, West Coast Berbice.

He made those remarks via a video statement, during which he added that the village has been under occupation for over 100 years. For all intents and purposes, he added it has been public lands.

For the past 100 years, Nandlall said that people have gone on to own lands through legal methods and obtain titles for the portions of land that they occupy in the village.
“Lincoln Lewis for several years now has been making an allegation that his ancestors owned this village. He has never been able to produce a document of title establishing his claim,” Nandlall revealed.

The Attorney General said he had received information that Lewis recently and reportedly trespassed on persons’ properties, and broke down fences while also trying to erect concrete structures where persons are currently residing.

Noteworthy, according to Nandlall, is that private lands in Guyana can be owned through two methods: by means of transport or by a Certificate of Title.

Lewis, however, has been unable to produce either of these documents in his name or in anyone else’s name.

Nandlall added: “Yet he keeps making this fanciful, vacuous allegation and periodically he goes into the village and he creates mayhem.”

The police were informed even as the Attorney General said that hopefully, the authorities will act in accordance with the law and in the most condign manner possible.
He further added that some years ago, residents of the village approached him while he was in private practice and he was able to file for prescriptive titles for those 25 or more persons at the time.

These applications, the Attorney General said, were required to be advertised or published in the official gazette and in daily newspapers.
This is done so as to allow anyone with a claim to those lands to file a notice of opposition and to contest same. At that time, Nandlall said that Lewis never opposed any of those applications.