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A forceful approach will not have to be considered to effect the removal of the Lamaha Embankment squatters to facilitate the implementation of the new Guyana Power and Light (GPL) 21-megawatt generating plant.The removal process was slated to be completed in its entirety by yesterday afternoon, since at around 10:00 hours yesterday about three shacks were left to be completely demolished. The deadline is today.During one of his weekly press briefings last month, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon had said that a forceful approach to having squatters removed from the Lamaha Embankment will not be ruled out if the area was not cleared by this month-end.Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn, and Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, had last month, too, expressed the same sentiments.Workmen busy demolishing one of the embankment homes yesterdayThe squatters, some of whom had occupied the embankment for more than 20 years, are now privileged to have house lots of their own which were assigned to them by the Housing Ministry as part of an agreement for them to vacate the area to facilitate the power-generating project.Several of them were afforded lots at West Minster in Region Three,NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, and they were assisted by the Public Works Ministry to transport their belongings.They were also afforded monetary assistance.Chief Executive Officer of the power company, Bharat Dindyal, in an invited comment yesterday,Claudio Bravo Chile Jersey, said that with the timely removal of the squatters the plans for the project are still on target.The new operation plant, which will also be located at Kingston,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, will in fact allow for a more reliable supply of electricity even as the old plant is phased out.It is estimated that the cost of construction will amount to about US$27M, and will serve to replace expensive diesel sets the power company currently has in operation, thus allowing GPL to experience a significant reduction in operation costs.GPL Projects Manager, Lennox McGreggor,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, disclosed that even before the new plant is completed a transmission lines system will have to be mounted in order to take the supply of electricity to Sophia where the power company’s distribution point is located.This phase of the project, according to McGreggor, will be done at a cost of US$300,000.The transmission set-up will have to be channelled along the Lamaha Railway embankment, an area which for a number of years has been occupied by the squatters.McGreggor had said last month that the power company had prepared tender documents for the construction of the lines which will cover approximately five kilometres of land from Kingston to Sophia.The lines will also have to pass through Owen Street and Drury Lane,Wholesale Jerseys China, an undertaking which will see the poles being placed about 10 feet away from buildings.Dr Luncheon had said that the old plant has been described by some as a ‘monstrosity’, both because of its age and the cost it incurs when efforts are made to bring it on and off line.“Indeed it has to go; it has been mothballed and been brought out under the most difficult of circumstances to respond to the most acute of emergencies.We need to bury it; it has been dead for some time now,” Dr Luncheon had asserted.