| – Residents call on Government to step in Even after repeated efforts to force the hand of a private housing scheme developer to fulfill his obligations, the residents of the area are at their wits end as they are again and again held at bay by promises and not results.The large plot of land located at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo, had been bought some five years ago by Parmanand ‘Krishna’ Samlall, former Chairman of the Management Interim Committee of Mora/Parika, with the intention of developing it into a residential housing scheme.According to reports, the area was shortly after partitioned into 119 house lots and sold to prospective residents with the promise that key facilities needed to make the community ‘livable’, particularly “proper” roads, drainage facilities and water will be put into place.Much to their dismay however,NFL Jerseys Outlet, more than four years after taking up residence in the area, the promises remain promises. To date, although electricity has been provided, residents await the promised roads, water and proper drainage facilities.How construction workers obtain waterResidents say that they were promised that works to the road would begin in April last after the water works were scheduled to be completed. However, no such promise has materialized.In an effort to push the scheme owner to deliver on his ‘promises’, the residents have repeatedly sought assistance from government agencies and coverage from the local media to have the matter highlighted.During a walkthrough of the community recently, some of the 50 residents who currently occupy the area expressed to the media that they are “frustrated” with the living conditions that they are forced to cope with and are hopeful that having the matter highlighted will lead to ‘some light at the end of the tunnel’.According to the residents, like manna from the sky, they depend on rainfall for water to carry day-to-day household activities. Additionally, since there is not “proper outlet” for drainage facilities for water to exit the community, flood waters remain on the land until “sunlight dries it up”.As for the roads,Cheap Jerseys From China, Chairman of the community board,Wholesale Jerseys China, Rupnarayan Rupai said that the residents depend on the “dry weather” in order to enjoy adequate use of the roadway. “In the rainy season you don’t see the road, just water,” he lamented.It was observed that as a result of the present circumstances in the housing scheme,China Jerseys, a number of residents have abandoned their homes to seek comfort elsewhere. Further, others have halted construction to their homes, awaiting the input of water and proper roadways in the community.“We are asking somebody, anybody in authority who can help to do something about this. We are asking the Government to step in to ask the developer to proceed with the work that he supposed to do, what he keep promising all the time. We going to everybody for help, but everybody saying is a private place,” Rupai added.Stagnant water in the community’s drainsMeanwhile, Samlall,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, the private housing scheme developer, during a recent telephone interview with Kaieteur News, expressed that he is “fed up” of the complaints by residents and that they need to give him time to address the situation.The man had said that he had done his part by issuing letters to the relevant agencies requesting their services,Cheap Jerseys From China, since he cannot physically “run lines and lay pipes.”Responding to claims by residents that he has waited too long to have the systems put into place, Samlall said that the reason for the delay was so as not to provide substandard facilities.He has, however, informed Kaieteur News that the networking of the pipelines to send water to each house lot has been completed and that the works were approved by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).He said that for the residents to receive water into their homes, a sum of money is to be paid to the water company after which the ‘water main’ will be connected.Further, the scheme developer informed that works to the road are scheduled to begin soon. He explained that the works were delayed as the contractor took on other jobs while waiting for the dry weather. As such, the man was tasked with finishing off the other jobs before taking on the works to prepare the roads in the scheme.The developer said that before works could begin, the residents need to fulfill their obligations by clearing the area in front of their yards to accommodate the building of the road.A section of the roadway in the residential area |
