About 100 residents of Haruru, Upper Berbice River, Region 10, yesterday blocked the main road used by Rusal Bauxite Company workers to get to the company’s Kwakwani mining site over a quarrel for land rental fees and a proposal to block them from accessing a logging area slated to be a mining site.
“About one hundred residents come out and block the road with logs and tractor and they also block the waterfront so Rusal workers boat couldn’t land,” a resident told Stabroek News when contacted yesterday. Up to late yesterday afternoon, the residents were still protesting and police were in the area.
Captain of the community of about 600 persons, Winsbert Benjamin told Stabroek News that he advised the residents