A very noble initiative

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The PPP's main concern is to feed, housed and to provide clothing for the poor people of the country. They will build roads and provide electricity so that the can be confortable in their neighbourhood.

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Originally posted by Ramakant_p:
The PPP's main concern is to feed, housed and to provide clothing for the poor people of the country. They will build roads and provide electricity so that the can be confortable in their neighbourhood.

Rama, how de sh!t they will do that, when PPP officials charge for things like FREE school uniforms.
By the way, you did not mention bandits, who will kill seniors first and rob later.

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Originally posted by Ramakant_p:
The PPP's main concern is to feed, housed and to provide clothing for the poor people of the country. They will build roads and provide electricity so that the can be confortable in their neighbourhood.

When? They been in power how many years now?
When will all this occur? When you go back and visit?
When?

Almost 900 million guyanese dollar was collected so far in 2011 by the GOG from selling houselots to the poor. Those houselots are in swamps, deep down in the bush, great great distance away from the main thoroughfare. No roads-only a tiny strip of a mud dam, no electricity, no water and no law and order.

The prime lands close to the main roads are not sold as houselots but instead as plots of land for housing deveolpment. Ppl with connections accquire those lands, then parcel it out as houselots with a finished built house-going for maybe 20 million. Those houses are bought by ppl with connections overseas and those in Guyana who has a job.

Poor ppl will not build their homes in another 10 years or more. At the pace of the infra-structure done on those housing areas, perhaps the ppl will build only shanty towns.

I WANT THE POOR TO BE REMINDED OF THIS. They have power in the vote and they outnumber the affluent by 10 to 1. I ain't telling them who to vote for.

Nothing wrong with the affluent owning their own homes, but 900 million dollar is more than all the affluent can contribute to the treasury of Guyana.

House, clothe and feed the ppl-the comrade seys. But when?

The poor demonstrates they are willing improve their standard of living-but when will they be given necessaries to do so.

16% VAT. The poor lives with it and they r creative with the menu to feed their families.

Clothe-thank God for the Chinese who are teking over GT. They sell cheap cheap clothes and slippers.

What the government cannot provide, they beg for in other nations and many times sell out the birth rights of guyanese citizens in the process.

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Originally posted by SJ4321:
A very noble initiative

What is so noble about single mothers with up to five children, building shacks in cemetaries with discarded materials, because they cannot afford a house lot.

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Originally posted by seignet:
Almost 900 million guyanese dollar was collected so far in 2011 by the GOG from selling houselots to the poor. Those houselots are in swamps, deep down in the bush, great great distance away from the main thoroughfare. No roads-only a tiny strip of a mud dam, no electricity, no water and no law and order.

The prime lands close to the main roads are not sold as houselots but instead as plots of land for housing deveolpment. Ppl with connections accquire those lands, then parcel it out as houselots with a finished built house-going for maybe 20 million. Those houses are bought by ppl with connections overseas and those in Guyana who has a job.

Poor ppl will not build their homes in another 10 years or more. At the pace of the infra-structure done on those housing areas, perhaps the ppl will build only shanty towns.

I WANT THE POOR TO BE REMINDED OF THIS. They have power in the vote and they outnumber the affluent by 10 to 1. I ain't telling them who to vote for.

Nothing wrong with the affluent owning their own homes, but 900 million dollar is more than all the affluent can contribute to the treasury of Guyana.

House, clothe and feed the ppl-the comrade seys. But when?

The poor demonstrates they are willing improve their standard of living-but when will they be given necessaries to do so.

16% VAT. The poor lives with it and they r creative with the menu to feed their families.

Clothe-thank God for the Chinese who are teking over GT. They sell cheap cheap clothes and slippers.

What the government cannot provide, they beg for in other nations and many times sell out the birth rights of guyanese citizens in the process.

It is clear to see that the Ministry is not profiting from the sale of house lots

September 25, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters



Dear Editor,

I wish to pen a response to the letter dated 22 September, 2011 by M. Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell seeks deliberately to manipulate figures so as to portray the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) as being involved in a major money-making scheme through the sale of house lots. This is far from the truth.
Firstly, I wish to point out that the CH&PA reported a surplus of G$226.2 Million and G$692.3 Million for 2009 and 2010, respectively. The writer inaccurately stated that the CH&PA made a profit of G$954 Million and G$1,248 Million for 2009 and 2010, respectively. In 2010, a record number of allocations, totaling 6,400 were made by the CH&PA.
These were made up of 75 percent low income house lots that cost G$100,000 each and 25 percent moderate to middle income house lots that range from G$300,000 to G$700,000 each. As reported in the financial statement of the CH&PA for 2010 the expenditure for the year was G$1.2 Billion, which included G$680 Million received from the Government for housing infrastructure projects. Income for the year 2010 was G$1.940 Billion, this includes the sum of G$889.2 million from the sale of house lots, which is obviously the bone of contention of the writer.
Mr. Editor, in light of the above facts, please allow me the opportunity to refute the claim by the writer that the CH&PA, more so the Government is profiting from selling Guyanese their own land. In 2010, under the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) US$27.9 Million Second Low Income Settlement Programme (LIS 2) the CH&PA expended the sum of G$1.573 Billion on infrastructure works in low Income housing schemes in Regions 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10.
Mr. Editor, in order to fully appreciate the amount of money that was spent on housing infrastructure projects during the year 2010 we need to add the G$1,573. Billion under the LIS 2 programme to the expenditure of G$1,248.3 Billion reported in the CH&PA Statement of Comprehensive Income, which gives a total expenditure of G$2,821.3 Billion and when this is compared to the total income received of G$1,940.6 Billion during 2010, the deficit, (not a surplus anymore) is G$880.7 Million! This truly reflects the reality that housing is subsidized and that the government is not profiting from the sale of house lot to poor people, as the writer falsely alludes.
Mr. Editor in order to reinforce the point of the level the subsidization that low income, as well as some middle income households benefit from, we need to look at the following facts presented in the table below:





The data presented in the above table shows expenditure in two (2) housing schemes that were completed and then allocated to beneficiaries in 2010. Firstly, Tuschen Phase 2 located at East Bank, Essequibo is a Low Income Scheme with 666 lots, with the per lot cost of putting in infrastructure being G$527,027. When this is compared to the selling price per lot of G$100,000, then it is very easy to see that the level of subsidization is 427 percent! Also, from the data presented for the middle income housing scheme located at Plantation Schoonord, where the average cost per lot is G$500,000, these lots are also subsidized at a level of 10.3 percent. Additionally, the cost of putting in Electricity is not included in the above table which means that the level of subsidization would be higher when this is undertaken by CH&PA.
Mr. Editor, in concluding I wish to state that from the facts presented above, it is clear to see that the Ministry is not profiting from the sale of house lots. In fact, in writing this letter, the Ministry is on a One Stop Shop Exercise today September23 at the Lusignan Community Center where hundreds more will benefit from the Ministry’s housing programme. I invite Mr. Maxwell to come down to one of these exercises to witness firsthand the transparent way in which the allocation of house lots is done.

Taslim Baksh
Finance Officer, CH&PA