Probe urgently needed into Bartica house lot distribution

Jun 19, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
An entire investigation is urgently needed to justify what took place in November 2012 as it relates to the issuing of house lots at Five Miles Bartica Potaro, since a number of residents are disappointed of the way the housing Minister did the distributions.
A number of residents brought to my attention that the housing Ministry only notify them by a letter two weeks before the housing Ministry one stop shop team came to Bartica and did the distributions of house lots.
The said letter(s) stated the price for land, date to make payments, status of house lot for e.g. high income, middle income and low income.
It was expected that a stipulated three level stage of money were to be paid for land (High income, middle income and low income) but I was advised by residents that on the day that the lands were distributed they paid for their lands as follows, $1.5M,$1.2M, $700,000, $600,000,$500,000 and $100,000.
Some of the residents stated that they only uplifted their land letters from the Bartica post office one week before the Ministry team came and did the distributions, since the post office does not deliver mail to the residents who live along the Potaro Road from one to five miles.
I was further advised by a lot of the residents who receive low income letters ,on the day of distributions when they presented their letters to the Ministry team to make payment for their house lot , they were told that all low income house lot had been allocated, and only High income and middle income house lots were available.
Before house lots are made available for distribution the Ministry of Housing would normally send the land surveyors team to conduct their survey to justify the number of house lot available for distribution, and based on the survey the Ministry will be fully aware of the number of house lots that they will made available for distribution.
How can the Ministry issue letters to residents for low income and then say to some on the day of distribution that all the low income house lots finish? Did the Ministry commit the said act so they can convert the low income to a higher income to make more money?
Did the Ministry mainly cater in its distribution for poor, and single parent residents that apply for low income house lot? Did the Ministry believe that all the residents of Bartica are gold miners and are rich? Did the Ministry know that a lot of residents the pay for their house lot browed they money to pay?
I urgently recommend that new methods be used to deal with the distribution of house lot in Bartica and a probe into the last distributions of house lots.
Micah Williams
Concerned Resident of Bartica

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