A Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) family got the shock of their lives yesterday morning when a demolition crew attached to the Public Works Ministry dismantled their shop in the pouring rain.
According to Yonnete Porter, sometime after 8:30am several officers attached to the Works Ministry approached the shop, which her mother had been operating at the Plaisance Railway Embankment for decades, and began to dismantle the infrastructure.
She said that sometime last year, the family was told that a part of their shop, which was situated at the front of their home, had encroached on the
