Irate residents of a section of Wismar took to the streets yesterday to vent their spleen, after having, according to them, foiled an attempt by National Director of Community Development Councils (CDCs), Philomena Sahoye-Shury, to install a CDC in the area.
On Wednesday, Agnes Benjamin, of Silver City, Wismar, Linden, celebrated her centennial birth anniversary and she credited her strong faith, devotion, her passion for cleanliness and maintaining a healthy diet for her long life.
Local authorities are preparing for a showdown over roads under construction in the Amelia’s Ward housing scheme, in Linden, which bear signs of major defects.
Although deeply divided on several issues, residents of Kwakwani and other nearby communities united for Independence Day on Friday night.
Fed up with the destruction being caused to their community by big ships passing along the Demerara River, Dalliwala, Christianburg and Speightland residents have, at great risk to themselves, begun to enforce speed and proximity limits for the vessels.
Residents of Kwakwani who are against the proposed installation of an interim Neighbourhood Democratic Council protested in front of the Local Government office where a public consultation was in progress, bringing it to an abrupt end.
Since the start of the May-June rainy season Lindeners have been raising concerns about a number of environmental health issues.
Residents of Watooka, Fair’s Rust, Richmond Hill and other nearby communities in Linden, Region Ten will soon get some measure of relief from traversing pot-holed roads as $13.9M has been allocated in the regional budget for road works, while Bosai has pledged $5M to the local authorities to augment this sum.
A medical team is expected to conduct a sweep of the West Watooka community today while environmental health officers are set to visit tomorrow after residents expressed uneasiness over increased illnesses and environmental issues.
Dead and dying fish, mosquito infestation, stagnant water, malaria, typhoid and dengue have resulted in residents of West Watooka, Wismar, Linden calling for a state of emergency to be declared and for immediate remedial action.
Photos by Cathy Richards Hururu Village is one of several communities in upper Berbice, Region 10.
In a protest over the planned increase in power tariffs, the mining town of Linden shut down for the day yesterday and hundreds of protesters poured into the streets to condemn the government plan announced in this year’s budget.
Lindeners in large numbers are today showing solidarity with the movement against the proposed increase of electricity tariffs for the mining town as announced by Minister of Finance Ashni Singh during the reading of the 2012 National Budget.
The leader of the Linden Civic Society (LCS) says he disagrees with the decision of the government to gradually remove the subsidy for electricity in the mining town.
Word out of the National Assembly on Wednesday that government is holding to its budget decision to gradually remove the subsidy for electricity in Region 10 sparked another street protest in the mining town yesterday, this time with hundreds turning out.
Relatives of the 17-year-old who died and lost her full-term baby recently while in the care of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) were joined by activist Mark Benschop and his colleague Malcolm Harripaul in a brief demonstration in Linden yesterday as they called for justice for the family.
This week we asked Lindeners about the announcement in the budget that power bills will be going up as the government subsidy will be gradually removed.
Residents of Coomacka Mines, Region 10 are demanding preference over Lindeners for the extraction and sale of scrap metal from the area but senior officials from the custodial body are accusing them of overstepping their boundaries and vandalizing state property.
The RUSAL-owned bauxite company in Guyana is now poised for the expansion of its local operations with the deployment of US$21M worth of vehicles and equipment from its business in Jamaica.
The $5M burner at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) remains out of service even as ‘sharps’ –needles, scalpels and other sharp-edged instruments used in the facility- are piling up.
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