|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
For several weeks, villagers of the indigenous community of Hururu located in Region 10, Upper Demerara-Berbice, have raised concerns about how funding from the sale of Carbon Credits allocated to the village, is being spent by those in authority there.
A recent meeting convened to focus on the issue, among other things, splintered when Toshaos Mark Gomes left the meeting abruptly as questions began to be asked about the funds. One resident who attended the meeting told the gathering, “If you have agreed for us to form a group to go down to Main Street, this have to happen as early as tomorrow.”
As tensions build in the tiny community of about eight hundred (800) inhabitants, residents recently blocked several sand trucks from bringing loads of material into the village saying over three million dollars spent on a project were unauthorized.
The Deputy Toshaos Giddeon Hartman at the recent meeting would only say, “I will not make any decision here. I would like to meet with the [Village] Council. We can discuss our way forward, and of course it will be feasible because we have seen the response of the Toshaos.”
“I think that was disrespectful because he went out of the meeting, walking out, leaving us here to take notes. You understand? Leaving me now with all of you to speak to you. I think that was disrespectful, and I’m going to tell it myself because we do speak, one to one,” the Deputy Toshaos Hartman told those in attendance as the meeting continued.
