Timehri North residents face new demands for relocation

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The area in Timehri North from where sand is being taken. APNU MP Joe Harmon says this should not be since the contract for the airport expansion project stipulates that the government is supposed to be delivering sand to the site and not allowing the contractor to dig up sand from a section of the community.
The area in Timehri North from where sand is being taken. APNU MP Joe Harmon says this should not be since the contract for the airport expansion project stipulates that the government is supposed to be delivering sand to the site and not allowing the contractor to dig up sand from a section of the community.

Timehri North residents say they are continuing to face demands to relocate, although there is still no word from authorities about where they are expected to go or compensation for crops that have been destroyed due to the works for the Cheddi Jagan Airport expansion.

“They issuing letters and scaring us,” resident Royston Holder said last week.

Holder explained that the latest letter stated that they were being given 14 days to dismantle their homes and relocate. He said nobody is