The Development Control Authority (DCA) said it is not easing its stance on squatting even as it scrapped Friday’s deadline to dismantle the illegal Perry Bay settlement.

The day of reckoning is here for hundreds of Perry Bay squatters whose homes were this morning facing the bulldozer.

Government is being told that as it moves closer to a clamp down on squatting near the harbour in the Capital that the world is watching to see how it handles the issue.

There has been strong negative reaction from the public on the issue of squatters in the Perry Bay area, following last week’s call for them to be removed by the middle of the month.

Perry Bay squatters – who have two weeks to vacate their homes – say government’s promise to help them move is meaningless because they have no place to go.

Employees at Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) can confidently say it wasn’t us in the Yorks squatters’ whodunit drama.

The findings of the probe into illegal utilities connections at Yorks Extension and subsequent action should not take an inordinately long time, Chairman of the Development Control Authority (DCA) Leon Chaku Symister said.