GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The chief government officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), Sherwyn Greaves, has resigned from the Authorities Division lower than 24 hours after questions had been raised about land offers at Ogle in Guyana and his buy of properties in New York.
“Let me be clear: my resignation is only a private selection and by no means an request for forgiveness. Every thing I’ve achieved has been by exhausting work and could be absolutely justified,” Greaves stated in a press release on Tuesday.
“Nonetheless, these posts have induced vital misery to my household and impacted our psychological well-being. Whereas I take nice pleasure within the work we’ve completed at CHPA and the numerous milestones we’ve reached, stepping away now’s in my household’s and the group’s finest curiosity.
Greaves stated he didn’t enter public service “to be subjected to such vilification,” including that the social media posts “usually are not solely upsetting but in addition irresponsible, inflicting immense psychological pressure on people and their households.”
During the last weekend, the chief of the opposition Alliance for Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes, raised questions on social media in regards to the sale of 30 acres of land at Ogle to an organization owned by a US-based Guyanese actual property magnate and the acquisition and flipping of properties in New York within the title of Greaves from one other firm linked to the true property magnate.
Greaves, who has headed the CHPA since 2020, has remained silent on his property purchases in New York, even because the Central Housing and Planning Authority and the Minister of Housing, Collin Croal, each issued statements on the sale of Authorities lands to actual property builders.
In defending the method and responding to considerations in regards to the price ticket, the Housing Minister indicated that the GUY$30 million (One Guyana greenback = US$0.004 cents) per acre price ticket was customary and had been in place for a variety of years, even underneath the previous Authorities.
