Residents of several Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine villages yesterday staged a protest at Lethem after boycotting the Guyana Geology and Mines Commis-sion (GGMC) land lottery and vowed to move to the courts to block the allocations.
“We ain’t giving up no mountain… We ain’t giving up no river that belong to we,” the protestors, some dressed in traditional Amerindian wear, sang from the Dave Martins song “Not a Blade o’ Grass” as they stood on the protest line, a short distance from the Lethem Airstrip yesterday.
They also held placards, which read ‘We need what rightfully belongs to us’, ‘Is giving away Amerindian lands part
