{"id":19814,"date":"2024-05-27T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19814"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:59:27","slug":"squatters-impeding-development-in-amelias-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/squatters-impeding-development-in-amelias-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatters Impeding Development in Amelia\u2019s Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>By Shawnette Fiedtkou<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development of new house lots and infrastructure at Amelia\u2019s Ward Fitz Hope Scheme is being hindered by eight squatting structures, according to Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&amp;PA) Chief Executive Officer Sherwin Greaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greaves, along with a team from the Ministry of Housing and Water, visited the new housing development on Wednesday morning to assess the situation and formulate solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the importance of addressing the issue to proceed with planned developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new housing scheme, over 400 lots have already been allocated, and another 160 have been regularized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greaves reminded residents of the negative impact of squatting, highlighting that it obstructs essential infrastructure projects such as roads, electricity, and water installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CH&amp;PA is actively working on these infrastructure projects to promote the occupancy of the allocated house lots, which is the authority&#8217;s ultimate goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greaves noted that allocations are ongoing, and there are many exciting developments in store for Linden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit aimed to determine the CH&amp;PA&#8217;s next steps in resolving the issue caused by the eight squatting structures blocking current infrastructural works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shawnette Fiedtkou The development of new house lots and infrastructure at Amelia\u2019s Ward Fitz Hope Scheme is being hindered by eight squatting structures, according to Central Housing and Planning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19816,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions\/19816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}