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← FROM PAGE 7 ed business was confirmed in June 2022.

Last year, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday confirmed that it was investigating a break in, between 15:00hours on June 2, 2022 and 16:000hours on June 4, 2022, which that was reported by the PNCR Vice Chairman. The police in a press release said enquiries disclosed that the then Vice Chairman of the PNCR secured the building after a meeting on June 2, 2022 and went home leaving everything intact. When she returned the following day, the police said the Vice Chairman observed a window at the bottom flat of the building was opened. According to the Force, it was discovered that one desktop computer, an electrical fan and a gas bottle were missing. The items which are worth a total of $125,000 were in the kitchen

area of the building.

Major Land Grab

Notably, last year, Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, had admitted last year that the PPP/C Government is still in the process of coming to grips with all the land that the former APNU+AFC Coalition Government sold to friends and family, while in office. He had made it clear, however, that even as the Government takes stock of the land sold out, it will continue to make an effort to recover these lands. He had said, “You recall the land policy. Up to now we can’t figure (out) how much land they sold, to whom, we’re trying to recover this. After the elections, (they) put out a gazette signed order to transfer (land) to over 100 persons, plots of land in Linden, to cronies. According to him, a lot of the land was dis- tributed to friends and family of the former APNU/AFC Government, not to ordinary people who were struggling to get a piece of land.

Additionally, days after they came to power in August 2020, the new PPP/C Government had announced that all of the land deals conducted by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) since the December 2018 passage of the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) would be reviewed.

In a statement at the time, Attorney General Anil Nandlall had said that “A review of all leases, licences and permissions to occupy public lands, granted since the 21st day of December 2018, will be conducted.

Leader of the PNCR-led APNU+AFC Coalition, Aubrey Norton, has remained silent on this matter, despite questions.