Dear Editor,
I write in relation to the Ministry of Housing notice in your paper dated November 18, 2008.
The ministry seems to be threatening to “repossess” lands which have been allotted but have not been built on or fully paid for. Will this include lands fully paid for where title documents have been issued to owners?
It is being said by the ministry’s officers that there was an agreement to build by a certain time. However, the financial situation has worsened for citizens. To alleviate the plight of many of these allottees, the government is doing its best to bring down the cost of minibus fares and flour and flour products. I guess the Minister of Housing knows full well the cost of building materials, the legal incomes of these allottees and also the impact of the 16% VAT.
President Bharrat Jagdeo, is on record as being against repossession.
Guyana has land to give to people rather than attempt to “repossess” the dreams and aspirations of the allottees.
Yours faithfully,
Veronica Ashby
Good submission Veronica Ashby.
Let’s hope that someone in the government did read this, and that some positive action be taken.
Is pressure…pressure ..pressure all the time.!
It is just an attempt to show that the gov’t can be serious about something in the communist sense of the word ’serious.’
Why not make d same efforts and get the water and electricity supply ,to the residents already living in these schemes,to be of a liveable standards.
Oh my God don’t talk about the garbage disposal issues.
Land should not stay undeveloped for an unnecessary length of period. There are others who want to build and can’t find land. There are also many of those who have been allotted land and all they do is sell it for a profit.
Should such lands be seized from the new purchasers because they have not yet built?
I think you should clear this point as it was an aside from the crux of the matter,
and that is, that lands were being repossed by the government, presumably
from the original awardees.