A Moblissa, Soesdyke-Linden Highway farmer, who suffered loss of fruit trees and damage to his farm land by a company that extracted loam under dubious permission, is relieved that the company is covering back the excavated area and he has been given replacement plants.
When Stabroek News visited the site of contention on February 17th, it observed an excavator working in the area and Nigel Griffith, the affected farmer, said the company had stopped removing loam and was “trying to cover over the area”. The forty-year-old man also said: “They bring back some plants already. They bring back some cherry and some soursop (plants). They’re supposed to bring some more…”
Griffith became concerned several weeks ago when he observed heavy earthmoving equipment and trucks excavating and removing loam from the 50-acre plot of land that his mother had leased through the Lands and Survey Department. Apart from the destruction of the land, Griffith lost over one hundred cherry trees and about fifty soursop trees that he
