After being forced to re-migrate due to the economic crisis in Venezuela, a family’s decision to erect housing on the government reserve at Jib, on the Essequibo Coast, has added to its woes as the regional administration demolished the structure.
Haimwattie Sooknandan, her husband and two young children, who recently returned to Guyana after having lived in Venezuela for the past ten years, were literally left without a roof over their heads on Monday.
Sooknandan told Stabroek News that her return to Guyana has not been an easy one and she was left to find housing for her family in wake of instructions allegedly given by the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Rupert Hopkinson to have their temporary housing demolished on the premise of it being on a government reserve.
