Latest update November 24th, 2024 12:54 AM
Senior Citizen’s home demolished
…believed to have been cultivating ganja on Govt. reserve
A senior citizen was yesterday left homeless after he watched the building
The excavator in process of demolishing Halley’s home.
he called home for more than 26 years being demolished.
According to an official at the Public Works Ministry, the 69-year-old man’s shack was encumbering Government’s reserves.
He was served several notices to remove from the area owing to his ‘erratic-behaviour’ of jumping into the road, obstructing traffic.
Despite this being the case, the man, Garrol Halley, also known as ‘rasta man’, continued to expand his shack and his garden.
It is believed that he was cultivating cannabis.
Kaieteur News understands that the man was encouraged on several occasions to apply for a house lot from the Ministry of Housing.
Meanwhile, this publication observed as enraged residents of the Lodge Housing Scheme, protested the demolition.
They contend that Halley has being living in the shack for over years, watching many of them grow into adults.
“If he was doing something illegal on the reserve you could have said something, but the man was making an innocent living by planting the government reserve…At least he doesn’t thief like them though,” an enraged resident said.
They also believe that he was doing a good deed for the community with his flourishing garden.
“I grew up watching him plant he garden and clean up he area…He place does always be clean, and he is a helpful man…He does sell he greens cheap just like the big market, and save people passage money…These people who do this to him got to be heartless,” one Diane Alexander said.
The woman was even more annoyed that bountiful fruit trees were destroyed during the exercise.
As tears flowed from his eyes, Halley related to this newspaper that he became fatherless at an early age, getting himself into “trouble” a lot, but has been trying to make an innocent living after being released from prison in July 2009.
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