Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall yesterday instructed the Mayor and Town Council of Mabaruma in Region One to halt the planned cutting of century-old rubber trees that line the Philbert Pierre Avenue.
After months of campaigning to save them, the rubber trees were to be brought down yesterday to facilitate the continuation of a road expansion project that has been stalled for over a year.
Several trees had already been cut down before Dharamlall intervened.