Wismar residents block move to install CDC at Poker St

Some of the disgruntled residents after disrupting the meeting.

Irate residents of a section of Wismar took to the streets yesterday to vent their spleen, after having, according to them, foiled an attempt by National Director of Community Development Councils (CDCs), Philomena Sahoye-Shury, to install a CDC in the area.

Contacted last evening Sahoye-Shury, well-known as `Fireball’,  told Stabroek News that as chairperson of the national committee which overlooks CDCs, she has the authority to carry out the mandate of the position she holds.

The residents said that on the grounds of exercising their democratic rights and in umbrage at disrespect levelled at Regional Chairman Kuice Sharma Solomon, they converged, uninvited, on a