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Oct 29, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I wish to raise a matter concerning an injunction hearing that took place in the High Court in Georgetown on October 22.
A gentleman named Saayo is occupying my father’s rice lands in Leguan. He had told the Leguan police in mid-September that he had no papers whatsoever that gave him rights to occupy and grow crops on the land.
At that time, Saayo had been removed from the lands with the cooperation of the Leguan Police Department under orders from Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and a court order signed by Chief Justice Ian Chang.
In Guyana’s High Court on October 22, Saayo represented by an attorney named Poonai, produced a brand new lease faxed in from the State of Florida to say he had rights to the land since year 2012. Lo and behold! The Judge granted Saayo rights to re-occupy the land and which in effect validated the lease.
In one fell swoop it also makes a mockery of Chief Justice Ian Chang’s order of 2010 against Narine Persaud and his agents not to encumber the land.
It would have been obvious to any layman that the lease was manufactured. What was wrong with the lease? (1) It was signed by my eldest brother Narine Persaud who passed away in the State of Virginia three months ago. The Judge would surely have noticed that the signature was forged – as there were some twenty-one samples of Narine Persaud’s signature in related court papers.
(2) The lease was notarized in the State of Florida by Narine Persaud’s daughter Margarie Persaud. In the State of Florida and possibly in Guyana also a notary public official cannot notarize documents for a relative.
(3) Courts anywhere normally would accept only original documents, not faxed copies. (4) The Judge also would have been advised that in mid-September, Saayo himself had told the Leguan Police that he had no legal documents that gave him rights to occupy the land.
So when was the lease manufactured (and how could it possibly be signed by a man who died three months ago?) – And where is it coming from? (5) The lease was headlined Leguan, why was it then transported to be notarized in the State of Florida?
There also exists an injunction against Narine Persaud and/or his children since September of 2010. Said injunction is registered in the High Court in Guyana; said injunction, among other things, ordered Narine Persaud not to encumber the real property in question in anyway, shape or form. This 2010 injunction predates this manufactured lease (supposedly issued 2012) by at least two years.
The facts as presented here make a mockery of judicial proceedings in Guyana’s court system – and also a mockery of the law.
I would like to ask a few simple questions: Could a lawyer knowingly present a fake lease to a judge, make an argument based on a palpably and demonstrably fake lease – and get away with it? Aren’t lawyers really sworn officials of the courts also and sworn to uphold the law? And, can a Judge be so easily fooled?
Mike Persaud
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