Quote " The allottees are being told that the scheme is not ready for occupation, although they have completed payment for their plots of land more than a year ago. In fact they have not even received their agreements of sale."unquote

“This land is for all Guyanese and yet they are attaching some serious conditions on the poor people. They are not doing this to their friends who get large amounts of land for themselves,” one of the allottees lamented. “Look at how fast Pradoville Two develop,” another added.

Ministry of Housing:

Corruptions in another blatant way, there are thousands who needs house lots and who when given (if lucky) will build a house for about 10M Guyana Dollar

With PPP/C almost giving away the house lots to their friends and cronies, it means that every house they (developers) build that cost them less than 10M Guyana dollars will be selling to the Public for 25 Million Guyana dollars.........one would look at this and say that maybe the Minister of Housing even will get a cut back or a bribe of at least 5 Million Guyana Dollars per house.

And so poor people are deprived of house lots by the PPP/C Governments.

Poor people who has applications for over three years, are being told that they cannot have house lots yet. But on the same token, the PPP dishes out prime property to their cronies and friends without any waiting time.

With these blatant corruptions how can the people go out and vote, who would they vote for?......well not the corrupt PPP/C.  

Even after one year has elapsed, and people has paid up fully for their plot of land........still the Corrupt PPP/C is sleeping.

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.

Can the Corrupt and seemingly thieving PPP/C says why citizens who had paid for their plot of land over a year now, cannot get access to build?