A young mother of Farm, East Bank Essequibo is distressed after a demolition exercise on Tuesday left her and her four children, including an eight-month-old baby, homeless.
Colene Richards, 35, told Stabroek News that it was painful watching her one-flat, three-bedroom concrete house smashed to pieces and being unable to do anything to stop it.
The demolition exercise followed the end of a five-year court battle with a remigrant from England whose claim was that Richards’s house had been built on her land. For her part, Richards insisted that the land she occupied was the government reserve and an uncle, Nigel Drakes, who
