WE, the residents of 2nd and 3rd Street, LBI Housing Scheme, the road after the estate road coming from Georgetown, wish if you could send a reporter to cover the following burning issues of grave concern. We have importers bringing in a minimum of 12 to 16 forty-foot containers per month  in this housing scheme, which we deem illegal and destructive.
In the latter part of October 2010, the Public Works Ministry had embarked to construct a road just parallel to the scheme road going east where you have four or five bonds erected to store imports by two importers.
The Ministry spent millions doing this project and putting up wooden barricades with bolts to prevent these containers from accessing this area hence damaging the culverts, parapets and the recently built road.
However, one importer residing at Lot 25 LBI Housing Scheme and one residing in Georgetown in collusion with the shipper had the top of these barricades in 2nd and 3rd Streets dismantled and the one in 3rd Street was rammed into by a 40 feet container and broken into pieces, to the dismay and anger of the neighbouring residents who have witnessed the destruction of their community.
The residents namely are the Sookdeos of Lot 36, the Rukhums of Lot 38, the Jaundoos of Lot 41 LBI, and the Singhs of Lot 23 LBI Housing Scheme. These residents can be contacted for more information.
When the residents contacted the LBI/Better Hope NDC their complaints were rejected and were referred to the Ministry in Georgetown. But these residents are paying their taxes here and not in Georgetown and should have coordinated these complaints, visit the area and liaise with the relevant Ministry and not the residents.
These barricades should be rebuilt using steel pipe structures and the neighbourhood and others should be consulted before these structures are built and provided hotline numbers to call at the Ministry and the NDC and police station.
The residents must be advised on how to protect these structures. A permanent ban must be put on shippers to enter housing schemes with these massive containers. The residents must be empowered to do this; currently they are not.