– seeking President Granger’s intervention
A family is seeking the intervention of President David Granger in resolving a 24-year-old land dispute involving a popular television personality Grantley Waldron, and on Thursday they assembled with placards in front of the Office of the President to raise their concerns.
According to one of the protesters, Frankie Sampson, the land which measures over 75 acres and which is situated at Sand Hill on the Demerara River, is owned by his mother Daphne Sampson, but is currently being occupied by the person in question, who operates a sand quarry on the property, flouting an injunction filed prohibiting any operations on the land.
“We cannot go on the land, because there are conveyor belts and all the equipment necessary for mining and shipping of sand,” a distraught Sampson related.
The family is calling for justice and for the illegal occupant to vacate the land. They are also seeking compensation for damage to a structure, which situated on the land and for the trees which were uprooted.
“Even the grave of my grandmother and sister which was buried on the land, he dug up and disposed it,” Sampson explained.
