Dear Editor,
Please refer to Peeping Tom’s article in the Kaieteur News of March 04, 2017, under the caption “Townhouses and duplexes will become free housing.” In this article Peeping Tom’s obsession with condemning the PNC has forced him/her to falsify history.

In that article Peeping Tom erroneously wrote “The PNC had a housing programme which provided a lot of houses to its supporters. But there were serious problems with the low income housing scheme which it established. These schemes were turned into slums. The range houses that were constructed festered overcrowding. The areas in which these houses were located remained low income. For this reason, the properties did not appreciate.”

I agree with the analysis of Peeping Tom as it relate to these range houses. Where I disagree is that he is referring to the range houses in East and West Ruimveldt which were built before 1964, the year the PNC came to power. These houses were built by governments before the PNC came to power. This uncomfortable truth Peeping Tom finds difficult to digest. As a consequence, he/she coughs up this falsehood.

The houses the PNC built were single houses with transport in South and North Ruimveldt and in many other areas across Guyana and are not slums. These schemes continue to be successful housing schemes and therefore Peeping Tom should not be frugal with the truth to achieve his/her nefarious objectives.

I don’t like the idea of placing poor people in range houses because of what they portend, but will not sit idly by and allow the PNC successes in housing to be obscured in fabricated stories that could, to many, appear to be true.
Regards

Aubrey Norton