| – 15 days to deadlineOne of the squatters displays the GPL meter which was left behind by the electricity company. With approximately two weeks left for them to relocate, the squatters along the Lamaha Street railway embankment have said that the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have disconnected their services, even though some of them are still occupying the land while they relocate.Even though the squatters are complying with Government orders to move, not all of them have already fully relocated.According to the squatters,Wholesale Jerseys Authentic, staffers from GPL came to disconnect their electricity on January 30 last. They said their water was disconnected earlier in the same week.When the water supply was disconnected, the squatters said, the men who performed the exercise said nothing to them. They simply disconnected the water from the main,NFL Jerseys From China, which is located on the pavement on Lamaha Street.“We just see the water stop coming,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and we ask the men why they cut off the water,” said one squatter. “They just said that they had instructions to cut all the water on the embankment.”Similarly,wholesale jerseys, when the electricity was cut,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale, the squatters said, the workmen came to their homes,NFL Jerseys Supply, looked at the meters and then instructed another man, who had already climbed the utility pole, to go ahead and disconnect the power.One of the electricity meters was left on the Lamaha embankment, and when the woman whose home it was left at called the electricity company telling them of the meter,Jerseys From China, she said, the GPL staffers asked her to bring the meter.She added that when she told them that she could not do so, they took her mobile phone number and said that they would call her back. She said that no one ever called her. She still has the meter in her possession.“People still need water to live,” said one of the squatters. She added that life without utilities was very difficult. The squatters have said that they now use candles and kerosene lamps for light, while, for water, the squatters said, they go to neighbours living across the street and beg for water.Some of the squatters have been occupying the land for up to 30 years, and up till recently, got both electricity and water supplied to their homes.Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon had previously said that a forceful approach to having squatters removed from the Lamaha railway embankment will not be ruled out if the area is not cleared by February 28.Public Works Minister Robeson Benn and Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali had said that the squatters needed to relocate by the end of February to allow GPL to set up a new power line interconnecting system there. |
