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Councillors examining the drainage works along Green-heart Street, Mac-kenzie

Many Region 10 projects far from completion

As 2012 comes to a close, Region 10 projects seem to be in limbo with a large number nowhere close to completion and community leaders fear this is likely to have a negative impact on the 2013 budget and work programme.

Ethel Lewis takes pride in her flower garden

Wisroc

 Story and photos by Cathy Richards Back in the 1970s, the Wisroc Housing Scheme was the showpiece of Linden with its hundreds of three-bedroom claybrick houses, most of them built by self-help.

GWI Contractor repairing Bachelor’s Adventure Well Station – working to restore normal service to Dazzel Housing Scheme and other affected communities (GWI photo)

Water returns to Dazzel

Residents of Dazzel Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD) can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has brought their water woes to a much anticipated end.

In photo, Dr Vincent Adams (right) in company of pal and former West Indies star cricketer Clive Lloyd at a recent dinner with LFU secretary Linda Felix-Johnson and Local Fund member Cloiette Eversley.

Guyanese earns Ohio School Boards award

USA-based Guyanese Dr Vincent Adams, site director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant was recently honoured for his  contribution to Ohio education.

Some of the LHC workers protesting yesterday

Linden hit by another protest

The issue of compromised gratuity payments to contracted workers of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) has sparked yet another protest, and a call to have the decades-old issue settled once and for all.

Linden readies to begin operating TV station

– though handing over deadline passed Although the official handing over of the transmitter is already two weeks past the deadline, Linden is getting set to begin operating the television channel, which formed part of the agreement between Region 10 authorities and the government over ending the five-week protest by residents recently.

Soyinka Peters-Johnson (sitting) being comforted by relatives

Family of seven homeless after Wisroc fire

The extended Johnson family of seven no longer has a place to call home after an early afternoon fire completely destroyed their two-storey house at Wisroc Housing Scheme, Wismar, Linden yesterday.

The displaced Hyderkhan family of nine

Freak storm pounds Amelia’s Ward

– families displaced, losses pile up Several families at Amelia’s Ward were seeking refuge last evening after being displaced by a freak storm with intense rain, and lightning and thunder that ripped through the Mackenzie, Linden community.

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