Scenes from Region Nine

Not afraid of heights: A worker straddling an arm of a lantern post in Lethem 30 feet high. He was wearing no safety harness.

The proposed site in Lethem for a spanking new building to house the operations of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry.

Occupational safety and health issues: This worker (inset) and just visible to the right of centre was working on a new building in the commercial district of Lethem without a safety helmet or harness.

Should I paddle across? A road in the Amerindian village of St. Ignatius

The new housing scheme of Tabatinga at right. It is slated for a $117.2m upgrade which also includes the laying of water mains for GWI. The roads are in a bad way. These are some that the Lethem Taxi Association has been complaining about.

Pole in the middle of the road: Part of the recently commissioned commercial zone in Lethem. Note the lamp post in the middle of the roadway. The poles were planted long before the area was conceptualized as a commercial zone.