Estate of Basil Butcher advertises transfer of 148.85-acre Essequibo lease

Valerie Pamela Butcher, executrix of the estate of Basil Butcher (deceased), has given public notice that she intends to transfer all rights, title and interest in a 148.8535-acre State lease on the Essequibo Coast to four named members of the family. The advertisement is carried as Notice No. 3368 in the First Supplement of The Official Gazette of Guyana of Saturday, 7 November 2026 (Gazette 424/2026). It opens a seven-day window in which anyone with a claim to the land may oppose the transfer in writing before the Lands and Surveys Commission.

The notice sits in the gazette’s standing “TRANSFER TO BE ADVERTISED” column, the channel through which leaseholders and estate representatives announce the disposal of State land before the commission can proceed. The same advertisement was carried in the issue of 31 October 2026, and this republication restarts the objection clock counted from the third appearance.

The land in question

The property is held under State Lease No. A12369 and is described in the gazette as follows:

• Area: 148.8535 acres.
• Location: Tract ‘X’, being a portion of Plantation Anna Regina, Block XXII, Essequibo Coast, in the Third Depth, known as New Road.
• Survey plan: GL&SC Plan No. 31702.
• Commission file: File No. 212243/521A.

The four named beneficiaries

All of the rights, title and interest in the lease are to pass to the following persons, listed in the notice with their national identification numbers and addresses:

• Blossom Valerie Butcher-Sumner — ID No. 177496809, of Lot 36 Block 413337 Cummings Lodge, Georgetown.
• Basil Butcher (jnr) — ID No. 567938531, of 55 Allen Street, Irvington, New Jersey 07111, United States.
• Bruce Ricardo Butcher — ID No. 654753161, of 2327 Shoma Drive, Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33414, United States.
• Brian Anthony Butcher — ID No. 658073351, of 14139 Castle Blvd, Silver Springs, Maryland 20940, United States.

Three of the four transferees are recorded at addresses in the United States, which places the practical conduct of the transaction in the hands of an attorney in Guyana.

Who signs for the estate

Valerie Pamela Butcher (ID No. 105030340), of 94 Riverside Drive, Watooka, Mackenzie, Linden, acts as executrix under Probate and Administration No. 2024-HC-DEM-EST-443, and is represented in the transaction by her duly constituted attorney, Blossom Valerie Butcher-Sumner, under Power of Attorney No. 1807/2026.

The three sons named as transferees are represented by the same attorney under three separate instruments, Power of Attorney Nos. 2440/2026, 2441/2026 and 1808/2026 respectively.

Seven days to object

The gazette directs any person holding rights, interests or claims in the tract to state them at the Lands and Surveys Commission, 22 Upper Hadfield Street, Durban Backlands, in the City of Georgetown. Objections must be lodged during office hours within seven days from the date of the third publication of the notice, setting out the reasons for opposition in writing and duly signed.

For the reading public, the advertisement is the last routine checkpoint before a substantial block of State-held farmland on the Essequibo Coast changes hands within a single family. Because the acreage is large and the beneficiaries are spread between Guyana and the United States, the seven-day window is the only formal moment at which other claimants, adjoining occupiers or creditors can put their case on the record before the commission.

Source: The Official Gazette of Guyana, No. 424/2026, 7 November 2026, First Supplement (notices), p. 4383 (official reference: Notice No. 3368).