Testimony continued on Monday in the case involving mining company Windalco and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) regarding the discharge of effluent into the Rio Cobre in St. Catherine two years ago.
The prosecution's first witness resumed giving evidence in the St. Catherine Parish Court.
The discharge caused a fish kill in October 2019.
There were also reports that some residents of Kent Village in St. Catherine suffered respiratory illnesses due to the discharge.
Some of the residents who gathered outside the courthouse on Monday complained that the community has not recovered from the devastation caused by the effluent.
One of the residents, Daniel Gayle, told Radio Jamaica News that efforts to replenish the fish stock have been unsuccessful.
"All now the river don't come back to normal as well because one time we usually go to the river and ketch fishes but now a bare ticky ticky fish we a ketch," he said in reference to the small size of fish now available to them.
"No one want those fish to buy so, right now, we the people in the community left stranded," he complained.
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