More than 100,000 to benefit from West Coast Demerara upgraded road project
February 25, 2012 – Capitol News – Over one hundred thousand persons are expected to benefit from an upgraded road project from Vreed-en-Hoop to Hydronie on the West Coast of Demerara. This is one of two agreements the Guyana Government and the Caribbean Development Bank inked on Monday February 25th.
The other project is part of the Bank’s Basic Need Trust Fund (BNTF) Programme and will fund projects in education, infrastructure and the water sectors. Continue reading
Two cases of struggles in Guyana without racial conflict – Eusi Kwayana
Letter: Two cases of struggles in Guyana without racial conflict – Eusi Kwayana
There has not been much examination in public of the legal framework surrounding the events of July 18, 2012 in Linden, Guyana, and no discussion whatever of what happened on the 12th and 15th of August 2012. I am glad I did not grow up in such a dumbed down atmosphere. My mother’s male and female school mates would have been visiting her, arguing, and chewing out the rightness and wrongness of the events, even and straight, as we say, with the lawyers, the editors, and the Commission and the readers. Mr Byron Lewis and Mr Yankee Jervis would have been at shop galleries and street corners questioning the mishandling of things.
This was the atmosphere when the five workers were martyred at Enmore in 1948. Few households on the East Coast went to bed normally that night. Those were the days of Jagan in all his glory, before the PPP. Continue reading →
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