City Hall threatens criminal prosecution over govt’s ‘savage destruction’ of green spaces

(Kaieteur News) – “Let it be appreciated, sans doubt, that anyone of your agents who continues these works will be met with staunch resistance and be prosecuted for criminal and civil wrongs which punctuate their actions,” warned attorney-at-law Eusi Anderson in a 13th November, 2026 legal notice dispatched to Public Works Minister Juan Edghill on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown.

The legal missive, seen by this publication, which gives the ministry until 17th November to remove all equipment and show cause for its actions, accuses ministry agents of wanton disregard for the Constitution and the Municipal and District Councils Act. Anderson demanded that Edghill disclose the environmental impact assessments and publish the names and credentials of the botanist and environmental experts who presided over what he termed the “savage destruction of several trees which adorned and defined roads and communities in the Georgetown area”.

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Responding defensively via a video broadcast on Thursday, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill admitted that it was “regretted that we did not do ahead of time more public education and information.” Standing in front of the Bishop’s High School to showcase the hard-shoulder improvement programme, Edghill insisted that trees are not being killed, that grass will grow back through the engineered fill once the rainy season begins, and that the project enhances road safety and parking while maintaining a stormwater-permeable surface. He added that contractors who dumped materials improperly had been reined in, and that heavy lifting across the city is expected to finish by Christmas.