Buxton disturbances affect Hampton View Inn
-- country cove up for rent
Guyana Chronicle
May 1, 2002
JUST eight months after it opened for business, the rehabilitated 45-year-old country cove named Hampton View Inn is up for rent, having suffered from a lack of business because of the disturbances centred in the East Coast Demerara village of Buxton where it is located.
The five-room facility, which offered conference facilities to seat 60 persons, and catered for wedding receptions, family reunions and garden parties, has failed to attract guests, the Chronicle understands.
While it is still open with a staff of four, business is not coming in and the seafront Hampton View Inn which offered an excellent meeting place away from the hustle and bustle of the city, will soon be a thing of the past.
The Chronicle understands that even though an advertisement has been placed in the newspapers for the Inn's rental, not much interest has been shown either.
The Inn, a multimillion dollar facility, is owned and operated by the Hamilton family that also operates the Hamilton Esso Gas Station at Buxton.
But Buxton, the scene of disturbances after the March general elections last year, has been affected by more violent incidents several times since.
Protesters have dug up the Railway Embankment road and sections of several other roads in the village, and Police have been maintaining patrols in the area for several weeks after the latest incidents.