By Cathy Richards and Frances Abraham President Donald Ramotar yesterday postponed an announced visit to Linden, which observers say could have been the catalyst for ending the ongoing protest, on the advice of the Heads of the Joint Services, following their failure to remove barricades blocking access to the town.
Ulric Michael Cameron, one of the Lindeners wounded after police opened fire at the Mackenzie-Wismar bridge a week ago, was flown to the city yesterday as his condition worsened.
Residents of Linden ended their sixth day of protest yesterday as resolutely as they began, with the town all but cut off from the rest of the country; though some vehicles were leaving and arriving.
Tension rose in Linden yesterday after a protestor was beaten by a member of the police Tactical Services Unit (TSU) even as residents maintained roadblocks and vowed to continue their protest beyond the planned five days if there is no progress on meeting their demands.
Kwakwani yesterday entered its sixth day of protest calling for the removal of the Deputy Regional Executive Officer Devon Bremner and the dissolution of the recently installed Interim Management Committee (IMC).
The protest in Linden heads into its fifth day today with its original focus—the increase in electricity tariffs—being widened to include the gunning down of three men by police on Wednesday.
Residents of Linden are back on the streets on both banks of the Demerara River, erecting blockades across the road and lighting fires.
Protests over an increase in power tariffs took a tragic turn last evening in Linden, when three persons were shot and killed and buildings and vehicles were set on fire.
Linden residents are being challenged to “march fearlessly against injustice” as they continue their power hike protest action which today is expected to trigger a shutdown of the entire town for the next five days.
Schools’ out youths are at home. Stabroek News asked young people at Linden about their plans for this holiday season.
“Sam don’t come because you are not welcomed here…”, demonstrators chanted yesterday as they blocked the entrance to the Bosai bauxite plant in Linden.
“July 1 will be a symbolic day that the government will never forget Region 10 for,” Regional Chairman Kuice Sharma Solomon warned as he addressed residents of Linden who turned out yesterday to protest the imminent increase in electricity rates.
An early morning accident along the Mabura Road has left one dead and eight persons injured, three of them seriously when a Route 72 minibus and a pick-up collided head on.
Construction work on a church at Linden came to an abrupt halt yesterday after a sandpit caved in killing one of the workers, 23-year-old Bobcat operator Ray Garraway of No.
Local authorities in Linden yesterday managed to quell an angry group of protestors who had formed a human barricade across Casuarina Drive, Watooka, calling for immediate repairs to the road.
This week we asked residents of Linden what is their role in ensuring that public works in their community are done to a satisfactory standard.
Despite hundreds of millions spent on infrastructural development, Block 22 Wismar, Linden remains beset by deteriorating roads and major erosion.
Linden residents are mourning the loss of one of their own after he perished in an accident along the Ituni, Upper Berbice River road, which also resulted in several other residents, including the driver of the truck, being injured.
The Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited (LUSCSL) yesterday commissioned a $3.8 million Wood-Mizer sawmill to begin work on its concession at 28 Miles, Mabura Road, following warnings by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) that it would be repossessed for lack of utilisation.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a 38-year-old Linden man who died at his Blue Berry Hill home on Friday.
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