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Mar 16, 2013 News
– Belle Vue Cane Farmer Society member claims actions unlawful
Damages in excess of $10M is being sought from a member of the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society Ltd who is jointly suing the Chief Cooperative Development Officer Mr. Abdul Kareem Jabar, the Minister of Labour, Human Services and Social Security Dr. Nanda Gopaul and the Attorney General.
The case is to be heard before Justice Diana Insanally on 19, March, 2013.
According to the Affidavit, the plaintiff Deodat Deokinandan stated that the defendants have no right or authority to deprive him of his right to occupy the lands allotted to him by the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society. Thus, he is seeking $10M damages from the defendants for unlawfully interference with his right to property, distress and consequential.
Deokinandan is also claiming that the intention of the defendants is to take away the lands that are in cultivating mode with bearing sugar cane and hand it over to political adherents.
He is also contending that the defendants have no legal authority to deprive him of membership of the society or the possession of the lands allotted to him by the society.
As such, a declaration that the suspension of the lawfully elected Committee of Management of the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society Ltd. by the Defendants was unlawful. A declaration that the appointment of the Interim Management Committee by the defendants is unlawful. Deodat is one of 17 persons in the society.
The plaintiff who is being represented by Senior Council Bernard De Santos noted that the Management of the Society’s business be returned to its members through a new Management Committee duly elected according to the provision of the Cooperative Societies Act Cap. 88:01.
The affidavit further stated that the plaintiff is requesting an injunction restraining the first named Defendants either by himself, his servants and/or agents from dispossessing his lands allotted to him by the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society Ltd. in terms of his said letter or otherwise except by due process of an order of a competent court. In addition, to a declaration that the defendant be stopped from interfering unlawfully in the affairs of the Society.
The court document further stated: The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. has leased lands owned by it to farmers including 670 acres to the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society Ltd. for the production and supply of sugar cane to its factory at Plantation Wales and these lands are allotted to the Members of the said Society.
Over the years several of the Members of the said Cooperative Society have either migrated or otherwise defaulted in the cultivation of their allotments and those lands have become abandoned and overgrown with bush thereby affecting the Society’s production and the income of the financial and producing members.
Several of the defaulting members owed money to the said Cooperative Society for services provided to them and they refused to pay their debts, thereby affecting the viability of the Society.
As a result the husbandry of sugar cane on the Society’s land and maintenance of the waterways and cane punts were adversely affected.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. warned the said Society of the fact that the land leased to it was not being beneficially utilized.
The Plaintiff further stated in the document that he paid to some of the defaulters compensation unlawfully levied against the society by the first and second name defendants, in order to appease those persons. That compensation was $3.7M.
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