Labour Minister to meet with residents today

Enmore Co-op society feud

As the feud between residents of Enmore North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and the Haslington Co-op Society escalated on Sunday last, with an Enmore resident being locked into her home by persons claiming to be the new owners, Labour Minster Keith Scott has agreed to meet with the residents today.
The meeting is expected to address the current situation and to derive a way forward for them.
In reaching out to Guyana Times, one resident stated she is grateful for the decision of the Minster to meet with them as they were beginning to feel hopeless.
“He is expected to have a meeting with us at the market area on Friday. We are not sure what the discussion will be about but at least we will get a chance to let him know the madness that is going on here,” the woman expressed.
On Sunday, Nadia Rambarran was alerted to loud noises emanating from outside of her home and upon inspection, she saw she was being locked in.
The individuals then proceeded to erect a fence around the woman’s home while she was forced to watch from inside.
Previously, the said woman returned home one day to find that her home had been invaded by the said people who had thrown all of her belonging into the rain.
Rambarran has been living on the property owned by her mother, Yasmattie Rambarran. The plot of land was willed to her by her now deceased uncle, Rango Paul, who was part of the Co-op Society.
However the land was reportedly sold and a transport was given to persons by secretary of the Co-Op Society, even though this is illegal.
Guyana Times was informed of numerous incidents where other Enmore residents were thrown out of their homes and in some cases, had their houses demolished by several persons who were given transport by the said secretary.
The woman was even sanctioned on two occasions for her actions by the Chief Co-op Officer of Georgetown but however persisted in her ways.
It is being reported that following a meeting between Minister Scott and the Chief Central Co-op Officer of Georgetown, it was relayed that the lands of the Co-Op Society are not to be sold but are to be transferred from one generation to the next.
Further, the lands are also not transported lands as it is a block lease and as such, the Enmore residents were never given individual transports.
Attorney Anil Nandlall who visited the residents is holding out that while the co-op is in a process of redistributing the land, they cannot merely give it to another member, while noting that when a person is deceased, the beneficiary is supposed to be given the land.
The law of cooperative society recognises transmission of interest upon death. If a deceased was a member of a co-op, and would’ve been entitled to a plot of land, when that person dies, that interest passes on to the beneficiary of that deceased person, the former Attorney General had explained.