A cease work order is to be issued to halt a sand mining operation at Sand Hills, Demerara River, following a protest by members of the Major family yesterday morning in front of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
The Majors were claiming that owner of Roraima Mining Dr Grantley Walrond was mining illegally on their land and that the GGMC was not doing anything about it.
Contacted, Walrond told Stabroek News via telephone that his company was granted a licence by the government to operate on the land in 1993 and that the matter was engaging the court’s attention.
Stabroek News was told by Desmond Major, who stated that he was born on that
