Ministry offers houses to Mocha squatters in path of road project

An aerial shot showing the houses in the way of the road works

The Ministry of Housing and Water has offered houses in the Little Diamond Housing Scheme, on the East Bank of Demerara, to a group of squatters remaining at Mocha, while warning that their homes will be demolished if they do not remove from the path of a major road project.

According to a notice published in this newspaper by the ministry, it is prepared and has available “move-in ready single flat two-bedroom housing units” for the squatters, whom it identified as five families.

“Should the last offer be rejected by these illegal squatters, the Ministry will have no other choice but to proceed with a demolition exercise,” the notice said.