Little has changed in Plastic City. Children run and jump on their creaky verandahs or on the narrow walkway that is the only dry spot in this squatter settlement by the seaside on the West Demerara.
The residents here should have moved out a while ago. But only a few have done so while about 20 families remain in their fragile zinc and board shacks on stilts in the muddy flats under the mangroves where foetid water accumulates in pools and numerous crabs scurry across the mud.
There are various reasons why those who remain have not moved.
Radica Ramdass had applied for a house lot and in June was sent a letter to pay half of the $92 000 within 14 days of the receipt of the letter. She said that she went to the
