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CJIA tells squatters to move or be moved

May 31, 2012 News

Management of the country’s lone international airport has ordered squatters to move within 30 days or face a forced removal. The letters/notices of eviction were issued by the Chief Executive Officer of the airport, Ramesh Ghir.
However the Timehri (North) Community Development Council has said that the move will affect over 3,000 men, women and children along with their buildings.  The Council stated that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) had, at a meeting held in the CEO’s office with the Officer-in-Charge of the No. 1 Sub-Division of the Guyana Police Force, a farmer representing his own interest, an engineer of the said Corporation and the Chairman of the TNCDC, notified the meeting of its intention to conduct soil testing and to construct a road 10 feet by 3,300 feet after the farmers in that area were amply notified and arrangements made for their relocation and the harvesting of their crops.
Daniel Fraser, the chairman, in a press statement said that it must be noted that at the time of the said meeting, the TNCDC was not a representative of the farmers who inhabit and cultivate in excess of 15 acres of farmlands outside of the Corporation’s boundary — beyond the Localizer north of the main runway.
He said that the CJIA move will be destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash and permanent crops belonging to the said farmers on lands of the state that were left unattended, unmanned and unregulated from since the days of the colonial British and subsequent American soldiers.
Fraser said that a grave injustice of insurmountable proportion is being contemplated, and is about to be committed by the Government of Guyana, on a section of the populace that is opposed to its practices as they related to the working people, those who are not overwhelmingly and ethnically affiliated to the party in Government and those who it is said “are the last rung of the ladder.”
Fraser said that he is calling on all Guyanese, and civic-oriented organizations, political parties, Members of Parliaments, African Cultural Development Association (ACDA) to heed this call, and to assist an established community, of working and God fearing residents, to resist this foul and evil endangerment of its people.

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