Residents of Aishalton, (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) yesterday blocked an excavator owned by the Romanex Mining Company from heading to the Marudi Mountains where they claimed it would be used in unauthorized alluvial mining.
“Eye pass to the highest I call this. We always have to be protecting our own lands like saving sheep from tiger every time somebody coming to abuse the lands…this matter isn’t settled as yet and this company coming to do shallow mining what they are not even assigned to do…well over our dead bodies,” A .Da Silva declared.
The excavator that had been making its way to the
