Denny Grijalva, the Managing Director of De-Mar's Stone Company has been at the center of a firestorm of national and international controversy for the past week. He's issued a statement, and now Grijalava has started giving interviews. Not to 7news – even though we've been asking for one since last week Friday – but yesterday he gave interviews to the Amandala and to LOVE FM. He told the Amandala that quote, "My company should be fined, because we did something wrong." But as he and his foreman explained to LOVEFM – there's enough blame to go around. Here's a small portion of that interview:
"Voice of: Denny Grijalva, Managing Director, De-Mar's Stone Company
"In this place apparently they have been digging for many years, I don't know how many years, fifteen, twenty years they have been digging there. It couldn't be done in one day that is something that had to happen through many years. My company was there only one day."
Voice of: Javier Nunez, Foreman, De-Mar's Stone Company
"So what you see on the tv we did not do that .I am not trying to justify what happened we don't feel very proud about it. When you go and do this type of jobs in the villages, to service villages, the contractor has no control over anything but to do the job. It really takes you where we mine the material. Personally I didn't know at the point that the equipment was taken to this particular ruin to be specific. Bad taste - we stayed with a bad taste and we are sorry about it and we would like to extend our apologies to whoever is involved and whoever concerned."
Voice of: Denny Grijalva, Managing Dir. De-Mars Stone Co.
"In my part and in the part of the company we want to apologize to the entire nation. We are sorry for what happened"
Grijalva and his foreman insist that they were directed to the site by the Chairman of Douglas Village who has flatly denied giving any such directive.
The work to finalize the charge continues as the staff form the Institute of Archaeology was working with police today to make sure the wording is precise. Those charges should be laid last week, and as Grijlava has publicly indicated he accepts blame. This probably has a lot to do with The fact that the maximum fine for destruction of a monument was set in the middle of last century and is only ten thousand dollars.
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