Linden toll booth reopens

From left: Region Ten Chairman Rennis Morian, Minister in the Ministry of Communities Valeria Patterson, Attorney General Basil Williams and Mayor of Linden Carwyn Holland yesterday at the launching of the reintroduction of the toll booth.

Three years after it was closed under the former administration the toll booth at the Kara Kara Bridge reopened yesterday, in a bid to increase the revenue in Linden.

Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, Mayor of Linden Carwyn Holland dubbed the reintroduction of toll booth as “a day that Lindeners eagerly awaited.”

Explaining why the council decided to reintroduce the tolls, Holland said, “We brought it back mainly because…