By Jeff Trotman
Former PNCR parliamentarian Aubrey Norton has called on Linden and Region Ten residents to refrain from blaming the government for everything and to strive to be self-sufficient and engage in micro-businesses.
Norton’s call came last Thursday during a speech at the first anniversary memorial gathering for the three men who were fatally shot during a protest in Linden on July 18 last year. Ron Somerset, 18, Shemroy Bouyea, 24, and Allan Lewis, 46, were fatally shot when police opened fire and discharged tear smoke at hundreds of protestors on the Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge on the evening of the first day of what was intended to be a five-day protest