Dear Editor,

Many persons like me are baffled to see that massive construction work is being carried out on a concrete building just by the roadside of the Suddie car park area in Region Two.

It is questionable why the Central Housing and Planning Authority in Georgetown and the district office of the Annandale/Riverstown Neighbourhood District Council would have granted permission to do this.

During the rehabilitation of the road from Charity to Supenaam, millions of dollars were spent by the government in compensation to remove buildings and fruit trees to facilitate a specific clearance range on both sides.

I personally had a house some 50 feet inside at Adventure and it was demolished in keeping with the road laws. I was told then that the construction of any building must be 60 feet from the centre line of the road.

Obviously, the same law is being flouted now and the payment of so much money in compensation is being wasted.

I have absolutely nothing against the owner(s) of the building, which is on state land, but the principle is definitely a bad one as surely others would be inclined to do likewise.

Yours faithfully,

Baliram Persaud