Despite being warned, residents from various villages on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) armed with cutlasses and other weapons continued to squat on lands which they claimed were promised to them years ago and which they now hope to acquire under the new government.
When Stabroek News visited some of these areas yesterday numerous persons said they were out on the lands all day yesterday again, but the authorities seemed not to be paying them any heed. They said that if this continues they will go ahead and start to build. Some said that if no one pays them any interest they are planning to protest in front the Ministry of Housing and Water building.
Mohan Lall, a resident of Success, ECD said
