Hururu residents continue protest against Rusal

Residents of Hururu, Upper Berbice River, Region 10, yesterday continued to block access to the Rusal-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) mining site at Kwakwani, saying the company was ignoring their demands.

Fed up with how negotiations were going over rental fees and a proposal to block them from accessing a logging area slated to be a mining site, about 100 persons from the 600-plus Amerindian reservation took to protesting on Sunday. They blocked the access road to the Kwakwani site with logs