Court recognises ancestral land rights of Upper Mazaruni villages – -but says ownership not exclusive

In what will be seen as a historic decision, the Chief Justice has confirmed the rights of Indigenous peoples of the Upper Mazaruni to their ancestral lands, though she stopped short of saying that those rights are “to the exclusion of all others.”

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