H state not city council
-lands and surveys
that the council should be aware if they gave any leases.
“The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission Stock Plan number 12850 highlights all Government Lands in the City and from the extract it can be seen where the red lines are. These are all Government properties except where they were sold. This plan also lists the various agencies and or organizations that once occupied or still occupies some of these lands.
“The Government has been issuing leases for many years over the lands held under Transport for the lands government had retained, among several leases the two play grounds on Carifesta Avenue where the new hotel project is to be developed. Permission number C. 434 was issued to the Teacher’s Training Centre in 1947 by the Department of Lands and Mines”, it said.
Permission number C. 433 was issued to “Youth Council” in 1947 for the area east of the Teachers Training Centre while other portions of lands were leased to Saint Stanislaus College, B.G Boy Scout (now Ministry of Education), East Indian
Cricket Club (Everest), Catholic Guild Club (now Marian Academy). Maltenoes Sports Club (expired, now being processed again). Cosmos Sports Club (now being processed for Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club). Some areas, it said, were also given to the Guyana Telecommunication Corporation by vesting orders under the Public Corporations Act, these are now part of GTT properties.
The only portion of land that the City Council held in the area north of Carifesta Avenue was a dam between GTT and Saints Stanislaus ground (called Wireless Road). This, the GLSC said, was leased to a private citizen for commercial purposes by the Council.
“The above basically seeks to bring some perspective into the ownership of the lands in the area and from the account given it can be garnered that the City Council does not clearly know what they own. The GLSC has a substantial amount of historic records that shows its control of those lands for well over 100 years, at no time during this period has there been any interference by the Council as to the ownership of the said lands.
“A quick check of the amount of land held by the City Council will amount to approximately 43 English Acres which more or less corresponds to the area previously described as being held by the Town council”, the statement added.