Demerara River residents risk lives to keep ships at bay

Dalliwala residents surround a ship to keep it from encroaching on their community

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 Dalliwala Creek told this newspaper that ships heading to or leaving the Bosai bauxite plant farther up the river have been causing damage to the river banks,