Complaining about the abuse their children face at schools outside their community, a group of parents from Ituni, up the Berbice River, in Region 10 on Monday staged a protest for the return of a secondary-level school to their area.
Another road accident at Amelia’s Ward highway has left a resident of Linden in a serious condition at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC).
Jamaican crooner Dobby Dobson is here to usher Lindeners into the New Year with a live performance at the L and L Social Club in the mining town tonight – New Year’s Eve.
The People United and General Workers Union (TPU&GWU) won the majority of votes cast by workers of the Oldendorff Carriers (Guyana) Inc.,
Almost two months after storm water swamped a section of Canvas City, Wismar, Linden, clogging a main culvert and causing severe erosion, affected residents are still awaiting de-silting of the area.
The elections results were bittersweet for many residents of Linden, in Region 10, who voted overwhelmingly for opposition coalition APNU and were disappointed that it did not win the presidency.
A Speightland/Lower Kara Kara, Linden man was killed on Tuesday at Kokerite, in the North West District.
The women of Linden were last week decked in green, some with the APNU campaign T-shirts, others with semi-casual wear, hairstyles of various shades of green, and scarves to complete their outfit, giving a clear indication that it was A Party for National Unity (APNU) activity in session in the conference room of the Linden Business Centre/Linden Enterprise Network (LEN).
An elderly man lost his home after a fire of unknown origin completely gutted it while he was out late yesterday afternoon.
As E-day draws closer political parties have stepped up their campaigning in the Linden community, with a few confrontations arising to the extent that the police have been called in and persons taken into custody.
The promise of jobs continues to be made at the PPP/C rallies and meetings in Linden and according to Campaign Manager for Linden Andrew Forsythe in the next five years the PPP/C can assure residents of over a thousand jobs in various sectors.
A number of chicken farmers in Linden have reported that they are seeing an unusual case of ‘stunted growth’ in their birds, which a veterinary officer in the region has said is not isolated to the area and may be due to a protein deficiency in their feed.
Citizens Bank Guyana Inc yesterday commissioned its $225M Linden branch, and bank Chairman Clifford Reis said it would work to help residents and the community achieve their potential.
Popular Linden DJ and owner of the Movements Sound System Troy Roberts continues to enthrall fans with his remote/radio controlled model planes and this weekend he is hosting a training session to give them firsthand experience in making and flying these planes.
Road safety practices have been a missing component from schools in Linden for a number of years but thanks to the coordinators of the National Road Safety Council, that void has been filled with a number of students being trained especially when it comes to the use of the pedestrian crossing.
As campaigning for the upcoming national and regional elections continues countrywide, we asked residents of Linden how they felt about the process thus far.
The Linden Business Centre was a hive of activity yesterday as hundreds of Lindeners and residents of other sections of Region 10 turned up with the expectation of walking away with their netbooks under the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project.
Family members of a Linden man are seeking details concerning his death while he was at Issano, in Guyana’s hinterland, where police discovered his decomposing body along a trail The body of Twain Samuel Moore, 35, also known as ‘Tago,’ was discovered by police along a trail at Issano on Thursday last week.
Some 200 jobs could be created in Region Ten next year, with the opening up of a new bauxite mine among with the construction of a kiln and a dust collector, but residents feel it would take an act of God or the waving of a magic wand for the 1,000 jobs promised by the PPP/C to materialize.
One man is dead and another seriously injured after an industrial accident yesterday at RUSAL’s Aroaima bauxite operations in Region 10 (Upper Berbice/Upper Demerara).
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