Despite meeting with two government ministers, no answers were received regarding two excavators that were linked to furtive plans for a road in a remote part of Region Nine and villagers remain opposed to the building of a new road, Toshao of Karaudarnau Valare Anderson has said.
The chief of the Amerindian community, located in the south Rupununi, was in the city recently and he said he sought answers in meetings with Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud and Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn. “They said that they don’t know anything about the excavator,” Anderson told Stabroek News.
The Toshao said that he first met Persaud and was directed to the Public Works Ministry. There, he was asked what the Natural Resources Ministry had said to him. “Both ministers seh they don’t know anything about the excavators,” Anderson recounted. The excavators, which were linked to plans to build a