Alva Solomon

With general elections looming, the working class was urged to focus on issues affecting their rights as the GTUC held its annual Labour Day event at the Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue yesterday.

Residents of Lethem are concerned at the sloth in the enhancement of sections of the community saying that some parts are neglected while other areas appear to be “favoured”.

Traffic along the Lethem trail halted on Good Friday afternoon after parts of a bridge located a few miles south of Karasabai collapsed under the weight of a truck.

Residents of Craig on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) have reservations as regards river revetment in the area which is nearing completion while the authorities express satisfaction at the work being undertaken.

REDjet, which bills itself as the Caribbean‘s first low fare airline, is set to launch its operations here within a month and the investment is expected to create “significant” job opportunities across the region.

“Mahaicony is more of a family place and everybody living here either related or would look out for each other,” said Claudia Braithwaite, who vends at the once busy Farm/Zeskenderen junction in Central Mahaicony.

Safeguarding the mangrove replanting drive through community involvement is being seen as one of the successes of the ongoing Guyana Man-grove Restoration Project (GMRP).

Residents living in communities along the Mahaicony Creek, repeatedly flooded over the last month, are considering moving from the area as some fear that the water may take another month to recede.

Traffic along the Friendship Public Road on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) was at a crawl most of yesterday, after a bypass close to a bridge under repair was eroded by flood waters.

A 34-year-old bank clerk is this week breathing a sigh of relief following a successful kidney operation which was performed on him on Friday.

Several communities along the Mahaica Creek were last evening preparing for the worst, as the authorities began a controlled release of water to reduce the level of the dangerously-high East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

Seafood company Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) has been implementing recommendations spelt out in a report on last June’s fatal trawler explosion.

A Guyanese couple who migrated to the United States several years ago have been exploiting the fruits of that country’s agriculture sector and the duo aims to market products to these shores in the near future.

The kitchen area of a Chinese restaurant on the Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road where a mid-afternoon blaze on Saturday gutted four buildings, had experienced smaller fires within the last year.

Several students got the shock of their young lives yesterday afternoon when they stumbled upon the bound and gagged body of an elderly sweets vendor at her home.

Elias Kennedy was yesterday afternoon hailed a hero after he saved two children from a burning house at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

Although fair weather has prevailed since persistent rainfall ended on Monday, parts of Buxton yesterday remained under several inches of water and it may take two more days to be drained.

Several villages along the lower East Coast of Demerara (ECD) were last evening under as much as 10 inches of water and residents were uneasy about the rising levels of the water in and around their homes.

Persistent overnight rainfall on Sunday continued into yesterday, leaving the city and a number of villages along the East Coast Demerara under several inches of water.

Several consumers who use the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) pre-paid metering service have expressed satisfaction with the service provided, though some feel it can be improved.