Rupununi village in uproar over payment to community service officer

She arrived in the village last Tuesday, collected the money on Wednesday and returned to the city $180,000 richer, leaving the Deep South Rupununi community of Karaudarnau in an uproar.

“She just came to collect and she done gone back already,” a villager told Stabroek News via telephone from the remote Amerindian village yesterday. The resident explained that a young woman from the village who has been living on the Coast for a number of years, returned last week to collect money after she was mysteriously placed on the list of Community Service Officers (CSO) from the village. Residents believe that she was placed there due to her family’s affiliation with the ruling PPP.

The young woman has not lived in the village for a number of years and the village chief Valare Anderson and councillors do not know how she was