Attorney General Takes on SATIIM on Maya Lands Registry

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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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Late this afternoon, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, SATIIM, issued a release critical of the government for being noticeably quiet on the issue of the Maya Lands Registry, as it relates to customary land usage and delineation.  In August 2018, the village of Crique Sarco was first to present a map outlining its boundaries.  In that statement, SATIIM’s Executive Director Froyla Tz’alam says, “as far as we know, the Attorney General never even looked at the map.” We asked AG Peyrefitte for a response to SATIIM’s release.  Here’s what he told News Five earlier this evening.

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