Ramotar orders security forces to clear blockages ahead of Linden visit PDF  | Print |
Written by Denis Scott Chabrol   
Friday, 27 July 2012 20:55

linden_bridgeEven as President Donald Ramotar prepares to go to Linden on Saturday to discuss residents’ concerns including the electricity hike and the killing of three persons during clashes with police last week, a tense calm prevailed in the south-eastern town.

Security sources confirmed to Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com)that roads around the town are still blocked and they are hoping to persuade the leaders and to remove debris.

The Office of the President announced that “Furthermore, the President has instructed the Joint Services today to remove all barricades blocking the roads and bridges in order to allow unfettered ingress and egress through the Linden Township.”

The blockages have choked off key supplies to riverain and mining communities as well as the southern border town of Lethem where fuel for electricity generation is low. Scheduled power outages have been instituted to ration remaining fuel.

Government is also contemplating alternative measures and routes to get fuel and other necessities to communities in Regions Seven, Eight and Nine that depend on road arteries that spring from Linden.

Lindeners want an estimated 400 percent increase in electricity rates lowered, prosecution of police implicated in the killing of three protesters on July 18 and a structured programme for the agriculture and wood sectors as other investment opportunities. They are also demanding special financing windows for micro-entrepreneurs to help ease the 70 percent unemployment in the once bauxite industry-dependent town.

Ramotar’s office singled out Region 10 Chairman, Sharma Solomon, saying that he is expected to cooperate with security forces in removing all obstructions on the roads and bridges.

The President emphasised that the Linden community as all Guyanese have the right to protest and represent their issues and concerns in a peaceful and law-abiding manner but his administration will not tolerate the blockage of roads and bridges leading into and through any community.

He stated that the government has exercised great restraint and patience and was constructive in the many meetings with political party leaders in the APNU and the AFC, the regional stakeholders and the Private Sector Commission over the last 10 days. Sadly, he declared that despite those efforts the blockage has continued for 10 days.

Sharma’s announcement that the Heads of Missions of the Canada, United Kingdom and United States would have visited Linden did not bear fruit.

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-26 #1 realist 2012-07-27 21:11
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed
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+30 #2 EMile_Mervin 2012-07-27 21:18
The Joint Services should first remove the blockage in Ramotar's brain! I have never seen such a mixture of arrogance and stupidity wrapped in a huamn package! Why doesn't he admit he can't do the job and resign rather than continue taking taxpayers'; money for doing diddly squat? If we can pay Jagdeo for corruption, we can pay Ramotar for ineptitude. Just go away, please, loser!
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+24 #3 Prem 2012-07-27 21:19
The Lindeners must give him a warm welcome-stay home or give him the middle figure. Mahatma Ghandi said "non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty." Lindeners do not cooperate with the PPP evil.
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+21 #4 JINNAH RAHMAN 2012-07-27 21:26
RAMOTAR'S HANDS IN BLOOD - according to victime relatives.
It is share foolishness for anyone to believe that Ramotar and his consistent lies - about "all Guyanese have the right to protest and represent their issues and concerns in a peaceful and law-abiding manner ", when 3 brothers and scores of other fellow citizens were brutally gunned down by senseless policemen, who were not properly directed and managed.

All of this confirms that our police have no professionalism and a large section should be sacked and the rest re-trained.

Rohee openly admited that the Police breached the "Standard Operation Procedures" (SOP) of the Guyana Police Force, but yet the they are still on duty some other part of the country. Why is he not suspended pending the agreed Public Commission of Inquiry? And why is Rohee still on the job when he failed, miserably, to command the respect of the Guyana Police officers on at least 2 major shooting incidents?

Ramotar - who appointed Rohee to the post - has already made his decision on the fate of Rohee - he will not sack him.

Only a national mass Action that can pose a serious threat to the economy and security of the country will force Ramotar to take such an action. Ramotar will continue to fool around - making empty threats and promises.

Ramotar can say these things to those who don't know him. The people of Linden and the rest of the nation, Guyanese abroad and our International friends must continue our struggle for an end to the dictatorial rule of this "illegal" minority regime.

There can be no compromise with this tiny arrogant power-hungry clique.

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE !
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+23 #5 Dallo 2012-07-27 21:36
Keep the pressure up Lindeners , only remove blockages in stages as your demands are met.If you do not keep the pressure up everything will go back to normal hard time living.President will probably come up there to talk political jargon then don't deliver nothing.
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+7 #6 StormWatcher 2012-07-27 21:52
Quoting JINNAH RAHMAN:
RAMOTAR'S HANDS IN BLOOD - according to victime relatives.
It is share foolishness for anyone to believe that Ramotar and his consistent lies - about "all Guyanese have the right to protest and represent their issues and concerns in a peaceful and law-abiding manner ", when 3 brothers and scores of other fellow citizens were brutally gunned down by senseless policemen, who were not properly directed and managed.

All of this confirms that our police have no professionalism and a large section should be sacked and the rest re-trained.

Rohee openly admited that the Police breached the "Standard Operation Procedures" (SOP) of the Guyana Police Force, but yet the they are still on duty some other part of the country. Why is he not suspended pending the agreed Public Commission of Inquiry? And why is Rohee still on the job when he failed, miserably, to command the respect of the Guyana Police officers on at least 2 major shooting incidents?

Ramotar - who appointed Rohee to the post - has already made his decision on the fate of Rohee - he will not sack him.

Only a national mass Action that can pose a serious threat to the economy and security of the country will force Ramotar to take such an action. Ramotar will continue to fool around - making empty threats and promises.

Ramotar can say these things to those who don't know him. The people of Linden and the rest of the nation, Guyanese abroad and our International friends must continue our struggle for an end to the dictatorial rule of this "illegal" minority regime.

There can be no compromise with this tiny arrogant power-hungry clique.

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE !

YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY BRO
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+9 #7 vijay singh 2012-07-27 22:02
JINNAH, BOTH RAMOTAR N ROHEE WERE AMONG THE DUNCE CAPS CHEDDI NURTURED, BOTH ARE A DISGRACE.
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+6 #8 cassavajoe 2012-07-27 22:16
What is he coming to talk about, people don't talk with Ramotat, the PPP have away in buying you out. Its in their D,N.A

A well Plan Social and Economic Development program with start up at very low cost from the bank, get rid of the hike in electricity. Rohee must go at all cost and justice for the killing and injuring of Guyanese who live in Linden.....
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+6 #9 Jay 2012-07-27 22:39
No compromise!! Let the President of this country who claimed he is for all, deliver to the people of LINDEN then the blockages will be removed. Mr. President you are not speaking to your children or three and four years old. This is a community that is suffering from economic growth. These are people with real issues and concerns that are affecting them.These need to be dealt with expeditiously so that the town of LINDEN can be returned to normalcy. Big stick method will not work. Dialogue without action is meaningless to the people of LINDEN. Gunning down the innocent is not the solution to the problems in LINDEN.
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-14 #10 Rishi KemrJ 2012-07-27 22:42
Mr President, do not make concession to these lazy negroes let them pay for power like the rest of country
Don't be bullied by Ramjattan , Hughes or Granger
Keep up the good job your doing, we're proud of you and what you have done for our country
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+7 #11 lita 2012-07-28 00:06
The f...n duck is lacking qualities and leadership
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+7 #12 lita 2012-07-28 00:10
The waste pppee is the government of the day and it is their obligation to provide job for its citizens. But instead they f.. up the mining town.
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+9 #13 Upset 2012-07-28 00:17
Once again the government is trying to make this political, I see a clear attack on Sharma, that is uncalled for and unwarranted. "The Struggle" is not about Sharma, it's about the people of Linden and the hardship ahead. I'm sick and tired of this government always trying to turn everything into a political battle. Our country is so poorly represented that I'm embarrassed to say that I'm a Guyanese. We are constantly fighting with ourselves and accomplishing nothing that will prove good for the country as a whole. We are a rich country, yet we're way behind in any form of development, because the government is too focused on turning the people of Guyana against each other. We are so divided, that instead of voting for change and fresh ideas for moving the country forward, we opted to vote for race. I'm saddened by the state of my country and will welcome the day when I can stand up as a proud Guyanese again.
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-7 #14 Linden Roots 2012-07-28 00:23
Brothers in Linden, concentrate on the Agriculture Package, it is the only hope for linden now.

Every voter went to God as I did for the party of our choice to win the last election, God ordain it to be the way it is, also remember in the BIBLE David even though persecuted by King Saul did'nt harm him because he was God's annointed.The same you should do for President Donnal Ramotar God's appionted for Guyana when he visit you soon

The best thing you can do is win his compassion, for with love and respect so much more can be achived- in war every body looses

God Bless
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-10 #15 bruce 2012-07-28 00:26
President DONALD RAMOTAR should order the joint services to kill all those troble makers
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+9 #16 Chet 2012-07-28 05:25
This man going to Linden is a complete waste of time. The opportunity to mend bridges and make amends has already passed and cannot be recovered. The fact that he and his acolytes have the temerity to send what I would define as an insulting message to the Regional chairman, Sharma Solomon, saying that "Ramotar’s office singled out Region 10 Chairman, Sharma Solomon, saying that he is expected to cooperate with security forces in removing all obstructions on the roads and bridges" is contemptuous. I have never read them sending these kind of messages to the sugar estate workers in Tain and Albion when they go on strike.He should stay in Georgetown where he is comfortable.
I have never seen such ineptitude and lack of leadership as displayed by Ramotar and the other imbecile that he took over from.
Lindeners, do not be swayed,hold strong. This man is coming to you like a wolf amognst the sheep to lie to you,to devour you and to ultimately leave you in the same state of despondency and impoverishment.
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+10 #17 AIB StUdent 2012-07-28 06:35
Good mr president should have gone to linden a while now
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+5 #18 Lindener 2012-07-28 07:13
Realist you need to get real and wake up. FYI Linden produce some of the best Skilled people this country ever had and still do.
Haters Never Prosper... Don't hate us because we are Literate...
Quoting realist:
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed
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+6 #19 Carl 2012-07-28 07:29
President Ramotar is acting as if the people of Linden are unique in their placing of obstacles on our roadway. Is Mr. Ramotar unaware of what his supporters do during their protests in Berbice and other places in Guyana?

I urge Lindeners to remove the obstacles so that Mr. Ramotar can make his PR drive through Linden and put them back up as soon as he leaves.

Stand tall, Linden. Let President Ramotar take his concerns about blocked roads to Berbice.
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+6 #20 concerned citizen 2012-07-28 07:31
Lindeners, stay home today and rest. Do not dialogue with the President. Then when he leaves, put up the barricades again and keep the pressure until all the demands are met.
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+5 #21 benuriah 2012-07-28 07:37
Flexing fluffy muscles is an indication of a leadership in crisis. Identifying one leader is an attempt to find a scapegoat when bribery doesn't work. Ramotar and the PPP are all about creating conflict to fulfill their dialectical and diabolical mindset hatched in failed Marxism-Leninism. Minority Gov't's seek plausible solutions. This issue began with an essential aspect of a Company Town with a socio-political history, which the corrupt, bloodthirsty and revisionist does not recognize and lack the capacity to understand. They must not get away with this cryptic genocide from the "Roger Khan Solution" under Jagdeo's watch to the "Rohee Execution" under Ramotar's watch. Let the international community note the character of this administration built on corruption and nepotism and a racial-caste based orientation. All Guyanese must resist these dangerous tendencies.
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+10 #22 Myinput 2012-07-28 07:42
Quoting realist:
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed


and you are 100% dumb....
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+6 #23 sidione sylvain 2012-07-28 07:53
All the residents of Linden should come out today and block the roads for the police killing of three Guyanese in Linden
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+9 #24 Myinput 2012-07-28 10:41
I have been monitoring the situation in Linden and what the media is informing the general public about the electricity situation. What I am yet to read are the FACTS concerning the electricity rate in "all of Guyana". People following the media are of the opinion that Lindeners are lazy people who wants handouts from the rest of Guyana. This is not true. I have immediate family living in Linden and they work very hard by running their businesses. Most days their businesses are very slow because of the economic situation there. The PPP administration is saying that Lindeners should be paying the same rate like the rest of Guyana. The PPP administration and the media is failing to let people know is that this is untrue. Take Kawkawni, Ituni and Mapletown for instance the people living there DO NOT pay for electricity. They are mining towns like Linden.
We need FACT FINDERS who will go to the various parts of Guyana and compare the electricity rates. The media is suppose to be reporting opinions and FACTS. What is Springland and Essequibo paying for electricity? If my memory serves me correctly there were some solar panels distributed in the interior to help in producing electricity there. Are those people paying the same rate as Georgetown? Or these areas are not considered part of Guyana?
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+5 #25 caban 2012-07-28 11:30
T pppc are now trying the same stroke that was used on Philip Byneo the cut throat that was bought by the pppc contracts and paid handsomely for doing squat
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-7 #26 rajes rohit parmanand 2012-07-28 12:14
The President coming clear the road!!! How u guys expect him to have access? Well the security ofrces have to really get dwon to clearing the road and if they cant then something is really wrong. Linden despite its porblems should not be allowed to hold the country at ransome. BuT THEN again how will they create the stir and amke a case? This is the only way. Vlear the way andthen lets hear what the president has to say. Then decide on further action. Good sense has to prevail. Rebelliousness without intelligence is equally dangerous.
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+3 #27 Christianburg man 2012-07-28 13:44
Signs of a Solution.........Alright lets see
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+4 #28 GT 787 2012-07-28 16:11
Quoting realist:
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed


Like you Linden is some other parts of th country where people just "follow the leadr blindly"
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-5 #29 G/T Shaft 2012-07-28 18:55
Get raids of them Linden Monkeys Devils, or else there will be no peace whatsover,they don't have what it takes to waste time with them anymore total irrelavent.Abandoned them completely and let Granger teaches them how to live like Humans or Anamals, or learnt them to play a Game Of Chess.
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+6 #30 Lee 2012-07-28 21:20
The Government of Guyana must always keep in mind Lindeners are a unique people they have always demonstrated that they are defenders of themselves and once again the sleeping giant have awaking standing to face vampires that wish to suck its life's blood. I love you Linden! show them that you can shake the PPP to its core
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+4 #31 Lee 2012-07-28 21:44
#15 bruce 2012-07-28 00:26
President DONALD RAMOTAR should order the joint services to kill all those troble makers
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Well since you are completely with out a shadow of a doubt a [censored] of the highest order with no regards for human life u should have migrated to the moon or better yet say that [censored] next to a lindener
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-5 #32 dayclean 2012-07-29 07:31
Quoting realist:
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed

Once the party card was good enough for a govt job. Times have changed and unless those who cry foul, disenfranchisem ent, discrimination etc develop the necessary skills that the job market demands, then they will continue to pass the blame on the govt and become victim of those who aspire to become ''leaders of the nation''. They are so blinded by racial and political prejudice they they cannot think for themselves and allow themselves to be influenced by these so call leaders. The country cannot move forward with kind of warp thinking/mentality. Education will get you out of poverty, not destructive protests
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-1 #33 dayclean 2012-07-29 07:34
Quoting rajes rohit parmanand:
The President coming clear the road!!! How u guys expect him to have access? Well the security ofrces have to really get dwon to clearing the road and if they cant then something is really wrong. Linden despite its porblems should not be allowed to hold the country at ransome. BuT THEN again how will they create the stir and amke a case? This is the only way. Vlear the way andthen lets hear what the president has to say. Then decide on further action. Good sense has to prevail. Rebelliousness without intelligence is equally dangerous.

Linden is the next target after Buxton. They failed in Buxton and now they are trying to whip tension in Linden. Who will suffer? Certainly not the people on the Corentyne coast or Essequibo Coast or elsewhere.
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-3 #34 dayclean 2012-07-29 07:36
Quoting JINNAH RAHMAN:
RAMOTAR'S HANDS IN BLOOD - according to victime relatives.
It is share foolishness for anyone to believe that Ramotar and his consistent lies - about "all Guyanese have the right to protest and represent their issues and concerns in a peaceful and law-abiding manner ", when 3 brothers and scores of other fellow citizens were brutally gunned down by senseless policemen, who were not properly directed and managed.

All of this confirms that our police have no professionalism and a large section should be sacked and the rest re-trained.

Rohee openly admited that the Police breached the "Standard Operation Procedures" (SOP) of the Guyana Police Force, but yet the they are still on duty some other part of the country. Why is he not suspended pending the agreed Public Commission of Inquiry? And why is Rohee still on the job when he failed, miserably, to command the respect of the Guyana Police officers on at least 2 major shooting incidents?

Ramotar - who appointed Rohee to the post - has already made his decision on the fate of Rohee - he will not sack him.

Only a national mass Action that can pose a serious threat to the economy and security of the country will force Ramotar to take such an action. Ramotar will continue to fool around - making empty threats and promises.

Ramotar can say these things to those who don't know him. The people of Linden and the rest of the nation, Guyanese abroad and our International friends must continue our struggle for an end to the dictatorial rule of this "illegal" minority regime.

There can be no compromise with this tiny arrogant power-hungry clique.

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE !

Is this the same Jinnah Rahaman who escaped the Burnham dictatorship to avoid The Mazaruni correctional centre?
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+4 #35 dayclean 2012-07-29 07:40
Quoting Myinput:
I have been monitoring the situation in Linden and what the media is informing the general public about the electricity situation. What I am yet to read are the FACTS concerning the electricity rate in "all of Guyana". People following the media are of the opinion that Lindeners are lazy people who wants handouts from the rest of Guyana. This is not true. I have immediate family living in Linden and they work very hard by running their businesses. Most days their businesses are very slow because of the economic situation there. The PPP administration is saying that Lindeners should be paying the same rate like the rest of Guyana. The PPP administration and the media is failing to let people know is that this is untrue. Take Kawkawni, Ituni and Mapletown for instance the people living there DO NOT pay for electricity. They are mining towns like Linden.
We need FACT FINDERS who will go to the various parts of Guyana and compare the electricity rates. The media is suppose to be reporting opinions and FACTS. What is Springland and Essequibo paying for electricity? If my memory serves me correctly there were some solar panels distributed in the interior to help in producing electricity there. Are those people paying the same rate as Georgetown? Or these areas are not considered part of Guyana?

You would be well advised to do your own research on electricity pricing throughout the length and breadth of guyana and you will get the facts.
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+7 #36 Overseas Attention 2012-07-29 14:40
It appears that this Govt is consider a lame duck, puppet to deal with tuff issues with tuff people in Linden.These people are beyond their boundries, and yet they are too soft to deal with them standards.
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+6 #37 Ken Robertson 2012-07-29 17:08
Quoting realist:
70% unemployment
90% illiteracy

how ever will they prosper. they are doomed

Before Emancipation, and long after, those stats were: 0% unemployment; 100% illiteracy. These were the people who first planted rice in British Guiana. They proceeded to buy abandonned sugar plantations.
The first big mistake was to make room in these villages for their equally oppressed Indian "brothers" when they could not OWN land elsewhere. As "dem blackman" worked on their own illiteracy, they shared their "slate 'n pencil" with their new "neybahs".
Next big mistake: the grab, hook, line and sinker, for the white man's norms,way of life with its inherent play and emphasis on race, class and color. Our Indian countrymen became even more energetic participants in this movement, primarily for reasons of their own.
The biggest mistake: In the biggest game in Guyana - COPS AND ROBBERS - the blackman chose the wrong side!
When petty crimes abounded: water in the milk; counterfeiting the dollar; bribery; he was missing in action excepting to place the charges and getting the occasional docket to court.
With the progression into false insurance claims, customs and income tax frauds and schemes, there is no catching up now
The loftier heights of narco-trafficking,mon ey laundering,cont raband, the unfettered siphoning-off of the people's money from the various treasuries and banks are the preserves of one ethnic group. The other, now fends for itself as enforcing serfs in the police force and the military. WHAT A PICTURE!
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-5 #38 Andy 2012-07-30 08:06
These Linden people mean to live off of a government that they so badly hate, what the government need to do is simple, 1. hold on to the increase of electricity, where else in the country are pensioners given reduction in their utility bill and such reduction, such as after first 50 etc.
The monies that will be spent on reducing the electricity bill in linden, use it to build another access to and around linden and place the army there 24 - 7 hence treat this new access as you would the borders of Guyana, meaning USE FULL force to any Unauthorised users, meaning that all users will be given permission to gain access through this. put a hold on the development of the country and shout the leaders and supporters of the PNC AND AFC mouth as they are bend on creating this into a political matter when it is not.
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