Villagers of the Amerindian settlement at St Cuthbert’s Mission in Region 4, have complained that they have been shorted in the procurement process for troolie palm leaves to be used in the rebuilding of the Umana Yana in Kingston.
“The contract says that some of the leaves are to be sourced from our village but there seems to be a deliberate attempt to not have this,” one resident told Stabroek News yesterday.
It was explained that in the contract for the rebuilding of the Umana Yana,