The government has implemented a ban on trucks parking in Ruimveldt reserves, following the removal of 11 sand trucks parked illegally at the Industrial Estate, in the vicinity of DSL Cash and Carry, East Bank Demerara.
These trucks had been illegally using the state reserve as a base for their operations, disrupting the business activities of the nearby Continental Agency subsidiary, Torginal Paints Inc.
Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill, visited the site on Thursday, where he engaged the truckers.
Explaining the issue to the media following his engagement, the minister said, “The sand is finding its way into the factory, and it is contaminating the paint. This matter has reached the courts. We have come and have removed these truck drivers before. Just under two weeks, the police have come and have removed them. They have returned.”
The minister noted that the truckers have attempted to negotiate with the government for alternative locations to conduct their business.
Government said the situation has been made worse by the truckers’ practice of dumping leftover sand on the reserves and effective today they will “preventing and prohibiting the parking of sand trucks at the Ruimveldt reserves to ply their trade.
A sign and barricades will be erected at the site, and any trucks found violating the government’s instruction will be impounded.
The minister advised that the government has initiated a plan to develop a piece of land to put all the articulated vehicles but the lawlessness won’t be permitted.
The Guyana Police Force will continue to monitor the area.
