President Bharrat Jagdeo has conceded to the requests of scrap metal dealers for 132 containers with scrap metals to be released from the wharf station for export but the suspension of the trade remains, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Friday.
The containers have been sitting on the wharf for the last six months after the government had instituted yet another ban on the trade of non-ferrous scrap metal, which includes brass, copper and aluminium, following more reports of vandalism.
In April this year, the Office of the
