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Squatting in the city is illegal
– M&CC’s PRO
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is calling on other Ministries and Agencies to assist in reducing the number of squatters throughout the capital.
City Hall’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Royston King said the question of squatting is a complicated social phenomenon and is one that the City Council cannot single-handedly deal with.
Royston King
“It requires the intervention of other Ministries and Agencies such as Ministry of Housing, Ministry of Human Services and Social Security…,” King stressed.
He recalled that a few years ago, a plan was discussed among several Ministries and Agencies to relocate squatters but today “there is no renewed effort in terms of that joint meeting.”
“We keep raising concerns about it (relocation of squatters) at every level because the squatters have poor rudimentary elements of sanitary; many of them are using latrines and that is affecting our drainage system because certain bodily waste gives rise to aggressive aquatic growth like wild eddoes,” The PRO stated.
King listed some of the areas where many persons are squatting. These include Tiger Bay, Tucville and a certain section of Broad Street.
He added that there are approximately 10 to 12 squatting areas around the city and the squatters are not paying any form of taxes because they are living illegally.
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