Plaisance residents joined hands and successfully blocked the newly-appointed community Overseer from entering the Plaisance/Industry Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Council (NDC) building yesterday, while expressing concern over an attempt at what they say is a land grab by the government.
Residents of the of the East Coast Demerara (ECD) community were furious that the Minister of Local Government had blatantly overlooked their reservations since July that the acting overseer Deborah McDowell was being replaced by a less qualified person.
In June, the Interim Management Committee (IMC) for the Plaisance/Industry NDC advertised vacancies for the positions of