And he's hoping to find a solution to the situation in Crique Sarco. As we've told you, an investor has begun logging in the village. But while it is communal land, the estate Gary Seawell is working on is private land - whose existence predated the consent order from the Caribbean Court of Justice. Still, the Forestry Department has issued a cease and desist letter, but it's a case that isn't so black and white. According to the Minister of Natural Resources, they will have to discuss it at the next Cabinet meeting.
Hon Cordel Hyde, Deputy Prime Minister
"It's a difficult issue, I've heard of it, and I'm sure we'll discuss it at Cabinet next week because we're on uncharted territory where the whole implementation of the communal lands victory is concerned, big questions remain: how do you work the whole private land, private rights situation inside of communal lands and there's lots of people who have private property in these communal lands. How do you, you have people who have leases, who've not been able to renews their leases, their leases have expired and we have a standing moratorium on that kind of activity with the lands department in the communal areas and those tings will have to be sorted out. But we'll have a discussion on it next week for sure because another big question that looms is really, how do you get prior confirmed consent from the Mayas as it relates to land usage and interaction down there. There's are difficult questions but the time is required that we grapple with them and we deal with them and do we'll be having discussions as we go along to try to make sure that nobody aggrieved and everybody wins in that situation as best we can."
