– honours road crash victims among fallen heroes
In what could be seen as a signal of the government’s concern over the burgeoning road carnage, President Irfaan Ali on Saturday night highlighted the deaths of two Region Ten teachers in a recent crash on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway in his address at Guyana’s 58th independence flag-raising ceremony at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden.
Commiserating with Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) over the loss, President Ali included the late teachers among the country’s heroes who had fallen since the last independence celebration. He led the gathering in a moment’s silence.
Spotlighting Region Ten as an imminent major investment centre and “centrepiece for development”, the President said that it was being positioned to become a link with the interior and northern Brazil. Infrastructural development currently underway, he said, would result in the region emerging as “an integral part in the transport, logistics, shipping hub, that container transhipment point in this whole ecosystem that we are building where the food capital, the regional food hub will be located…”
