-resettlement plan being finalised
Chairman of the Timehri North Community Development Council, Daniel Fraser, says that while he lauds the government for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project, he believes that the residents he represents are being removed due to another agenda.
“The Timehri airport expansion has nothing to do with Timehri North… the government is making it out to be that we are hampering development in this country but that is not so. I am glad that they are expanding but the real issue here is real estate… the value of the land we live on will escalate,” Fraser told Stabroek News on Thursday.
He was at the time responding to statements made by the National Director of Community Development Councils, Philomena Sahoye-Shury, in a recent interview with Stabroek News. Sahoye-Shury had said that