Success squatters refuse to budge despite rising waters

A NICIL excavator breaking part of an embankment

Residents of the Success Squatting Area are refusing to budge even as the area is being flooded by NICIL in a bid to dislodge them so as to facilitate planting in the abandoned sugar cane fields.

When Stabroek News visited yesterday, the embankments at the far end of the squatting area were being broken by an excavator to allow for the process to begin, while dozens of anxious residents kept arriving and leaving during this time.  Some persons tried engaging the police officers who were standing guard but the officers did not respond. Water from sections of two canals behind the officers had already risen to the brim of the embankment, while there was some overtopping in other areas.