The Minister Delegate for Overseas Territories, Jean-François Carenco, announced on Wednesday the simplification of the process for allocating land transferred by the State to municipalities, within the framework of the Guyana Agreements, during a press briefing in Cayenne.
From now on, ordinary and urgent requests are immediately liberalized for municipalities. We still have to specify the mode of management or the type of property, but the urgency for the communes is settled, indicated Minister Jean-Franois Carenco.
In this large department of 83,846 km, the State holds 94% of the land. Following the social movement of 2017, the municipalities obtained via the Guyana Agreements the retrocession of 250,000 hectares, to provide for the installation of farmers, the construction of housing or public buildings such as schools. However, in November 2022, only 3,289 ha had been reprocessed and 91,000 were still awaiting processing, far from the 250,000 ha available.
The fault is a complex procedure, assured AFP Michel-Ange Jrmie, the president of the Association of Mayors of Guyana (AMG).
Transfers are no longer subject to projects but are made by simple decision of the municipal council, said Michel-Ange Jrmie, satisfied with the exchanges with the minister who assured that the tax on this land would be entirely transferred to the municipalities.
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Regarding the choice of areas for land retrocession to farmers and indigenous peoples, also provided for in the Guyana Accords, the issue is more complicated according to Mr. Carenco. Three working groups will be set up to move forward on the subject with farmers and indigenous peoples, who respectively benefit from land retrocessions of 20,000 and 400,000 hectares, he said.
The Guyana Accords signed on April 21, 2017 at the end of five weeks of strike on the territory provided for measures for security, justice, health and education, for an amount of 1.08 billion euros.