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Charlotte Street residents fear collapse of rotting shed
– say owner ignores pleas to demolish
Persons living in an enclosed compound at Lot 167 Charlotte Street, Georgetown
are seeking help from authorities to demolish a large, rotting shed, which they say poses a danger to them and their children.
The shed is said to be the property of a landlord. Residents claim that the owner has made no attempt to pull the structure down.
Most of the children in the compound play under the shed. When Kaieteur News visited the location yesterday, a few children were playing next to the shed.
One resident claimed that in response to complaints, the landlord would ‘brace’ the structure up with pieces of old lumber.
Hanging pieces of wood from the shed
“A few nights ago when it was raining I swear the shed would have fallen because it was making a lot of noise and the roof was blowing up and down disturbing me from my rest,” one woman said.
“The morning when I wake up if yuh see wood on the ground and pieces of rotten zinc that had to be cleaned up.”
Another angry resident said that, “you see how them nails done loose off…I just want it hurry and fall down but nobody must get hurt, because its only when it fall then he gone rebuild it.”
A mother of three stated that one evening while she was going home she heard “Bladam! Blam! And all I could have done was run for my life because I thought was a thief man, is until the next morning when I go back and check I realized that it was two piece wood that fell. Look how I could of get knock.”
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