East Coast railway embankment residents in battle with big businesses over land

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Signage from the Central Housing and Planning Authority erected in late February has done nothing to stop work from being done on the government reserve by a future furniture store. The sign says “Notice: Property of the Central Housing & Planning Authority”
Signage from the Central Housing and Planning Authority erected in late February has done nothing to stop work from being done on the government reserve by a future furniture store. The sign says “Notice: Property of the Central Housing & Planning Authority”

Land which has been historically leased to residents is under threat from the encroachment of big businesses which are taking up government reserves along the Railway Embankment Road from Mon Repos to Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.

Residents along the areas told Stabroek News that they have been fighting for over 15 years to have the land regularised with the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) promising that the land would have been surveyed in September 2013.

Within the last three months, not only has the land not been surveyed by the CH&PA, but businesses