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Sascha Wil­son

Res­i­dents and her­itage ad­vo­cates in Palmiste are step­ping up ef­forts to pre­serve the Cedar Grove chim­ney, one of south Trinidad’s last sug­ar es­tate relics, as they or­gan­ise a pe­ti­tion urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to save the 200-year-old struc­ture.

The Palmiste His­tor­i­cal So­ci­ety and Palmiste Res­i­dents’ As­so­ci­a­tion are call­ing for the area to be of­fi­cial­ly de­clared a her­itage site and for the chim­ney, which had been con­cealed in an un­de­vel­oped part of Palmiste 1975 Ltd, to be re­stored.