With the free and fair election since 1992, the people indeed have the choice to vote for any political organisation.

It happens in  the last Elections, entire villages of Grove comeing down to Herstelling, the people did not go out to vote. I was there and I did have a good idea of what happened. One would have expected that with the New Housing Schemes in Grove, Diamond, Herstelling, and Providence, the PPP/C would have run a way with the majority of votes.

The People shafted them, and they are expected to get a bigger laar this time around.

Again, the people have the choice to exercise their voting rights.

Its good to see this being done by the government.  As a man on the left I care about 4 things

1, Affordable housing.

2. Free education from Primary to University.

3. Free Health care.

4. Every Guyanese getting a half acre of land to farm a small food garden.

It is a dream, that many Guyanese dreams about, under this current PPP/C it is like seeing a mirage in the that dream.

Private housing developers given preference over poor Guyanese – APNU

- Party wants inquiry into Housing Ministry

Parliament’s largest Opposition faction, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has joined calls for a review of the system used by the administration to allocate large tracts of lands, across the country, to private developers.

APNU MP, Joe Harmon

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

Yesterday, APNU Member of Parliament, Joseph Harmon, who overlooks public infrastructure development, said that the coalition has been studying the issue for awhile now and has prepared a list of questions to be tabled in the National Assembly which reconvenes this month. Harmon’s disclosure comes one day after Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, revealed that his party is finalizing a number of questions on Government’s housing programme. The questions have to do with lands earmarked for housing that have been placed under the control of several private developers who are reportedly building gated communities and other homes. The homes are selling for millions. Government has said that the public-private partnership initiative is to ensure that the level of housing standard is improved with the introduction of new players. But there has been an absence of information as to what system was used by the Ministry of Housing to allocate the lands. The tracts are located in prime areas and there have been complaints that ordinary Guyanese were pushed to take up house lots located further behind these. According to Harmon, the entire housing allocation process has been engaging the attention of APNU. “We have received complaints… from persons who have purchased a number of those small, turn-key homes at Providence… about the quality of works done. We don’t know who built these homes. We don’t know what kind of supervision was carried out. We don’t know how the contracts were tendered. What we do know is that people have been complaining.” Large tracts of lands, on the East Bank and West Bank of Demerara are under development. At Leonora, West Coast Demerara, an area reportedly under the control of embattled US-based Guyanese real estate entrepreneur, Edul Ahmad, is under construction. From Eccles to Providence, hundreds of acres have been allocated to several individuals for the purpose of private development. Still more land has been earmarked or allocated to private individuals, between Herstelling to Little Diamond.

One of the private housing schemes under development on the East Bank of Demerara.

With the East Bank of Demerara becoming one of the hotspots for housing in the country, the demand for house lots there has been growing in leaps and bounds. Persons have been complaining that they have waited for years for house lots. Government has already announced plans to open new housing areas in the Soesdyke/Linden area. “So yes, we are not clear how these private developers got the land. More importantly, if there was a demand for house lots and you go ahead and give these lands to friends and persons close to the Government, then how can this be explained? You are saying that private developers have been given preference over our people, poor Guyanese who badly want a piece of land?” Like the AFC, Harmon said that questions will include what price Government was paid, when it was paid, and who were the players that have been granted tracts of lands to develop. APNU will also be joining Ramjattan in asking the Housing Ministry to indicate when the decisions were taken to allocate lands to private developers and whether the process was advertised to allow other interested persons or companies to take part.

Parliament’s largest Opposition faction, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has joined calls for a review of the system used by the administration to allocate large tracts of lands, across the country, to private developers.

 

APNU MP, Joe Harmon

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

 

Private housing developers given preference over poor Guyanese – APNU, October 16, 2013 | By KNews | Filed Under News, - Party wants inquiry into Housing Ministry

October 16,2013 -- and what is the result which is about a year since they made their statements.

October 16,2013 -- and what is the result which is about a year since they made their statements

Rub off the boo boo from your eyes it's a

fact private housing developers within the inner

circle of PPP are given lands for questionable

prices and reaping huge profits.

Proven fact/issues or rumours?

How the place flood. Chic-un-gun-yuh will get we sick. 

Explain how they make huge profits, Django.

Lucky for me me mamoo and pappy can pay for a private jet to take we to hospital in TT and Barbados and Orlando just like Mr jagdeo and Mr Luncheon and Miss Manikchand and Mr Persaud. 

Ed Ahmad building housing scheme, mall, at Leonora

NICIL sold land ‘strictly’ for wood processing

New York-based Guyanese, Edul Ahmad, who is facing trial in a US$50 million mortgage-fraud scheme, is looking to build a posh housing scheme, mall and gas station at Leonora, West Coast Demerara. The housing development would be called Hollywood Gardens.
The land for the project was previously owned by the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), up to 2008. The almost 17-acre plot was sold by the government’s asset holding company, NICIL.

In announcing the sale, NICIL and the Privatisation Unit had said that the use of the land was restricted to value-added wood processing operations. The sale of the land was made to one of Ahmad’s companies, South American Woods Incorporated.
The plot of land once served as the senior staff compound for the Leonora Estate. At the time of the sale, NICIL claimed that all of the buildings were destroyed by fire or were vandalized. The land, 16.3098 acres, was sold for $80M or$4.9M/acre.
Ahmad, who was released on bond in the mortgage fraud scheme, is not allowed to leave New York and travel to Guyana. Jury selection in his fraud case will take place in November, and U.S. prosecutors say they will need only one week to prove their case against Ahmad.
But Ahmad is currently offering parcels of the land for sale. The Leonora projects are being run from Ahmad’s building materials depot at Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
Persons are being told that if they want to build their own house, they can buy a 95-foot by 50 foot lot for $6.5 million. Persons can also let Ahmad custom design and build for them.
As land development is now ongoing, persons who make inquiries are being told that if they secure a plot of land, they would only be able to start building next year.
Ahmad proposes to have 87 houses built at the location. To that will be added a full gas and service station, facilities to house two banks, and a huge shopping mall, the company says on its website.

$4.9 million per acre,90feet X 50feet lot $6.5 million

Where are the proof of -- private housing developers -- which would signify numerous companies.

Mr DG me know we have numerous misquito in the housing scheme to give we chic-un-gun-yuh. 

DG.. you bob and weaving,dissecting the words of

my post,do the math.

http://buddysguyana.com/housing/index.php

Be specific with your presentation.

Great movie...

Cobra,this one is better

The man answer you aready DG you want it rass in braille now?