Company pledges more steps to ease Cane Grove rice mill dust

The Cane Grove residents protesting on Friday

Over the past ten years, clouds of dust from a rice mill has enveloped their homes and caused health problems, residents of Cane Grove, Mahaica have said but the company says action was taken to keep the dust down and more measures will be undertaken soon.

Residents said they have sought the intervention of several agencies with no result and the attorney retained to represent them in a court matter involving the mill has avoided them and is refusing to return the file. Recently, they sought the assistance of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and the matter was raised at a press conference and last Friday,