Mayor says contractor had no permission to cut Brickdam trees

The heap of leaves and small branches with garbage on Brickdam.

Mayor Hamilton Green on Monday said that the City Council was not responsible for the mutilating of trees on Brickdam though the contractor told Stabroek News he had been contracted by the city to do that task and had been at it for 21 years.

Green told this newspaper that he is “appalled” by the entire situation.

Several trees along Brickdam were hacked this week in a bid to prune them. When Stabroek News had visited the area,