Land allocated to the Estate Dam and Coconut Dam communities in Cane Grove on the East Coast of Demerara will be resurveyed for regularisation; meanwhile road rehabilitation works will continue.
This message was brought to the rice farming community by Ministers Susan Rodrigues and Deodat Indar. According to a Guyana Water Inc (GWI) press release Rodrigues, the Minister in the Ministry of Housing, explained to the East Coast gathering that the last survey of the Estate Dam community was based on occupancy and that of the 135 lots surveyed, 83 were regularised and 52 contentious. Rodrigues said that the 52 are either squatting or have extended their fences and living quarters onto government reserves and are blocking drains. As a result the Ministry cannot proceed with regularisation.
