Shastri Boodan
Farmers in Central Trinidad are calling on the Government to regularise their leases.
Dhanraj Balkaran, President of the Central Farmers Association along with Attorney Richard Jagessar met with over 60 affected farmers at the Felicity Community Centre yesterday.
Balkaran said over two thousand farmers in this country have either expired leases or are awaiting to get their 2-acre agricultural plot from Caroni (1975) Limited as part of their VSEP package after the state's sugar producer folded operations in August 2003.
Balkaran said " People have been waiting 20 years for land to do farming and yet right here in Felicity we have individuals with government connections squatting on 175 acres of state lands. How can this be so."