Imagine painstakingly planting your yard with fruit trees and celebrating the reward of seeing them bear but just before the fruits ripen, they are stripped from their branches and thrown to the ground. In local lingo, your ‘hard labour gone down the drain’.
Well this is the story of Laurie Greenidge and Ruth Bart who for quite some time have been battling the destruction of their fruits and even the greens in their kitchen garden. But they also have to deal with bricks being pelted on their roof in the dead of the night, preventing the aged couple from having a good night’s sleep.
While most Guyanese spent last week caught up with the controversy surrounding the March 2, elections results and last Wednesday’s confirmation that Guyana had recorded its first death from the pandemic COVID-19, Greenidge and Bart, as they have been doing for quite some time, were fighting to have some peace in their Diamond home.
