Cathy Richards

Sixty-five miles south from the capital city lies one of the larger housing schemes in Guyana: Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

Residents of Linden who turned up yesterday for the Ministry of Housing’s one-stop-shop house lot distribution had mixed reactions to the criteria set for persons of various income brackets and economic standing as it relates allocation and the size of land.

A 16-year-old girl who was in a car with two men who are suspects in a number of gunpoint robberies in Linden was released on Monday night after seventy-two hours in police custody.

A Party for National Unity (APNU) member Rupert Roopnaraine last night pledged the political grouping’s support for the private media in Guyana, in view of the attacks by President Bharrat Jagdeo, though he also accused this newspaper of being biased.

What could have been a major tragedy instead turned into an oil bonanza as dozens of residents from parts of Linden rushed to get oil from a tanker which had overturned and ruptured while negotiating a steep turn at the foot of the Winifred Gaskin Highway at Wismar.

A call is out for Region 10 chairman Mortimer Mingo to resign his  position as a representative of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on the grounds that his judgement is questionable over the offer of a lot at Pradoville 2.

The local religious television programme which was pulled from the air in Linden following complaints that the content of a recent broadcast was perceived as  attacking the government of Guyana will be back from  Sunday after the decision was revisited by senior management of National Communications Network (NCN).

A pilot has been launched for the Parent-Child Alternative Programme (P-CAP), which is aimed at helping students in Linden diagnosed with literacy problems and their parents.

A six-month old infant was among two killed along the Mabura Road, when a minibus collided head on with a truck yesterday morning.

The importance of the police and the community working together was the key message at the commissioning of the New Police Outpost at Amelia’s Ward Linden and the Linden Station Management Committee (LSMC) came in for high praise from Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee and Commissioner of Police Henry Greene.

Community leaders and residents of Linden are continuing to highlight the substandard quality of works being done under an ongoing $300 million road and drainage rehabilitation programme.

“Every time a pregnant woman comes to our clinic, every time everywhere no exception, she should have access to HIV testing and counselling and know her status,” Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said as he launched this year’s National Week of Testing.

Classes were suspended yesterday after an early morning fire ravaged a section of the four-storey Wismar Christianburg Secondary School gutting the top flat, while there was severe water and other damage to classrooms on the second and third storey and at least one teacher’s apartment in the bottom flat.

If anyone mentions ‘Shining Town’ in Linden, they would be referring to Silvertown, which is one of Linden’s first communities.

Residents of Linden are expressing no-confidence in the management of bauxite company BOSAI fulfilling their recent commitment to have two dust collecting units operational by February 2012,  saying that they have for many years been living on empty promises.

Staff at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) who recently exhibited determination, commitment and a  desire for a positive image were rewarded by being able to sustain a twenty-three-week-old foetus.

In Linden on Tuesday, two physically-challenged residents were able to benefit from a small humanitarian gesture that is expected to be of tremendous help in their daily mobility.

PNCR-1G Councillor Dexton Copeland was yesterday barred from a statutory sitting of the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council because of disorderly behaviour.

Residents, business people and passers-by watched helplessly yesterday as a young man was severely chopped about his body by a friend shortly after the start of business in the shopping centre at Mackenzie, Linden.

For the residents of Victory Valley life is not too far below the average compared to persons living in other communities on the west bank of the Demerara River at Linden.