Legal action hovers over consulting firm’s land at Providence

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has sounded a warning to Laad Consulting Inc., a company with a Canadian address, in relation to its plot of land at Plantation Providence, East Bank Demerara.

According to a notice seen by this newspaper, the housing body’s Corporate Secretary, Hannifah Jordan, on behalf of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lelon Saul, has given the company two weeks to make contact with the CH&PA’s Stabroek, Georgetown office; “failure” to do which “would result in legal action” being taken in “respect of the said parcel of land,” the CH&PA has stressed. The parcel of land is located at Block III, Plantation Providence.
Laad Consulting has until this Friday to respond to this notice; a response would avoid court action being taken against Laad.
A search online regarding Laad Consulting’s operations both in and out of Guyana did not yield much success. However, it was contended that the company’s given Canadian address of Interlacken Drive, Brampton, Ontario Canada was an upmarket residential area. It is unclear what overseas operations were conducted.
The CH&PA has, in recent memory, been urging private developers and other land owners to develop unoccupied land by building on it. In June 2017, Saul had warned that CH&PA would soon repossess lands from those private developers and from house lot beneficiaries if they had breached their agreements.
“We are currently engaging these developers. We are encouraging them to develop those lands, to live up to the agreement of sale; and I should say that in some cases it is likely that we would move to repossess some of those lands,” Saul noted.
“I can tell you that I would have instructed our corporate secretary to initiate actions to repossess lands from private developers who have failed to deliver,” the CEO had pointed out.