Conditions at Barnwell deplorable – AFC

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling on the government to take urgent steps to address the depressed conditions residents of Barnwell North are being forced to endure and to provide potable water to the area and instal a pump at the outfall koker of the Number Three canal.

A team from the AFC, led by Chairman Nigel Hughes and including Daniel Fraser, Neilsen McKenzie, Anil and supporter Ann Atkins visited the East Bank Demerara community on Saturday.

Barnwell North is located east of Mocha Arcadia and east of the squatting area aback Mocha. The village was established in the late 1970s when persons were given leases for one-acre plots for small agricultural development. Over the years it has been inhabited by