Lands and Surv code of ethics
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Chief Executive Officer and Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), Trevor Benn has announced that the Commission is developing a Code of Ethics to guide and police the work of Land Surveyors across the country.
According to a Ministry of the Presidency press release, Benn made this announcement during a community meeting, held on February 26th in Corriverton as part of a three-day outreach, from February 25-27, to East BerbiceCorentyne (Region Six).
This code of ethics, Benn said, is being incorporated into a Bill to be tabled in the National Assembly.
“People have been complaining about the way work has been done with surveying. So, we’re working on a Bill that we hope to take to Cabinet and then to Parliament in relation to the work of surveyors; a new code of ethics that will govern the profession. At the moment, we don’t have any and so surveyors go out there and work without any real sanction for bad behaviour… We’re putting this Bill in place to make sure that there is something we can go by and we don’t treat in an ad hoc manner the sanctioning of surveyors,” he said.
The Commission has held one consultation with surveyors in DemeraraMahaica (Region Four), according to the press release, and will continue consultations in the other administrative regions of Guyana. The consultation process is set to be completed at the end of May with the goal of completing the draft bill and presenting it to Cabinet in June 2018. Benn said that the outreach was planned in response to an increasing number of land inquiries and complaints coming from Region Six.
Attended by a 10-person team from the Georgetown GLSC office, the release said that the Commissioner was able to listen to the issues of over 60 residents from Kildonan, Fyrish, Springlands, Corriverton, New Amsterdam, and their surrounding villages.
“At the Lands and Surveys Commission we take very seriously the work that we do and in order for us to be able to understand the issues affecting our work on a daily basis we have organised ourselves to do several outreaches across the country… We do these outreaches primarily because often the true picture of [what is] happening