By Kenesha Fraser
A number of residents of Tapakuma, Essequibo Coast, are calling for justice following their eviction from their ‘Food For The Poor’ homes last Saturday by the village council.
According to information, in 2011, Food For The Poor built 50 houses in Tapakuma for families in need. The houses were handed over to the families with the condition that they occupy them immediately.
Simone Sandy, a resident to whom a house was given, told this publication that last Saturday she was travelling from the village to conduct business in the Anna Regina area, when Village Captain Doreen Jacobis stopped the bus she was in. “She tell me that she want me to go and check some matter so I asked what the problem