Hay dummy, that is your view. You transgressed your authority when you begin to shoot protesters.

Linden may not be a state within a state but a state is an agreement between social actors to select an administration to fairly address their needs.The admin is not the state. They are employees by a consensus of the people to accept them as such.

The admin does not get to decide when to kill them. If they block the bridge, use your water cannon etc. Why real bullets?

the same way the government should have close down the sugar estate instead of wasting the tax payers money to save people standard of living,you stupid ppp crime family is playing with fire

Way Linden should continue to use large amounts of subsidize electricity, while the rest of the country didn't, the time has come for Linden to be place on the National Grid

You disgusting, whoring little antiman!  . . . without even common decency or respect for the dead

I pray that you die the most agonizing AIDS-related death.

I agree, they should have also closed down the bauxite industry, right.

Which fire the playing with, slo fiah mo fiah??

Wow, you must be losing it.

you PPP folks jonesing for a race war like pigs in mud . . . I look forward to seeing you on the front line when shit hits the fan.

Somehow though, I think not

There is no race war.  There are many decent hardworking Afros and other folks paying their fair electricity costs without protest and mayhem.  Why is Linden different.  It's sad that political opportunists led them down a dead-end path, very sad.  Condolences to the bereaved.

In the name of justice to the victims, the Govt should seek those who incited the violence and bring them to justice.

We know . . . not yet.

YOU and the racist PPP braintrust are seeking to promote one

Who was being subsidized when the nation was paying some 700 thousand US a year per power plant  to rent 12 power plants, (each unit only costing 900k new) from Machinery Corporation of Guyana Limited?

The money wasted here subsidized PPP cronies are acceptable but poor people cannot express their disgust with out being killed. BOSAI did not ask for this rate increase as far as I am made to understand. This is the PPP administration with nothing to do deciding it will strong arm the people.

guyana have a government dont make me laugh

You know, such language and bullyism get's you nowhere.

Like I said, you perform like a poorly programmed robot . . . how's Ravi Dev doing these days?

The AFC and the PNC used their supporters and thugs who attacked the police and destroyed property to incite voilence and this might as well be the first attempt by the combined opposition to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guyana

There is no credible evidence to support any of your claims that the AFC and PNC were involved. It was plain and simple a PPP regime led ethic cleansing attempt to wipe out the local population with overwhelming gunfire.

The US state department should revoke all visas issued to the PPP regime and members of the family.

Don't cry wolf needlessly,

Really, who has been calling for the protests and leading the charge?  I don't know how broad the leadership of the AFC is involved, but clearly opportunists factions, aided and egged-on by cheer-leaders with stealth agendas, are at the center of this dispute.

The inciting "martyrdom" statement of the "AFC leadership" reflects this without a doubt.

After prompting the residents of Linden to disobey the rule of law,the joint opposition is noticable distanting itself for what many says that they are directly responsibly for.

just stop it, OK.

I know it's your living . . . but just stop it

4 innocent people are Dead!

Its time the joint opposition to come out and condemn the actions of the protesters in Linden, the burning of buildings,citizens vehicles and terrorizing persons because of their political persausion  are not peaceful protest

Looks like the feet got ahead of the heads.

Shame on the AFC and the PNC lead APNU, for inciting those residents to voilence

I see you have no tolerance for a balance discussion or shared opinions on Lindenener's chaos. Peaceful protest and a riot to burn government building are two different things and have to be treated in a distinct manner. I don't believe life should have lost, but the joint opposition should be equally accountable for orchestrating a riot and call it peaceful protest. The ruling govt said an investigation will take place as soon as the calm is reinstated. What's your freaking problem, bro?

This is the second time in the past year the government has taken the shoot first ask questions later.

And this idea that casts protestors as violent when they are not is a function of the pervasive racism that  has dominated our politics. Until the police moved against them resulting in the murder of four people and the injury to dozens of others, no one was doing other than protesting on the bridge.

Note, as stated earlier, protesters in Greece and spain and in the US were out in force of thousands over the past year and none of these governments took to shooting protestors. Let that be a measure of how arrogant, disgustingly disrespectful and brutally racist t his government is.

Its amazing.  During the 1970s the PPP frequently held marches and protests without the permission of the govt.  When Burnham let loose his goons on them, declaring that the marches were illegal and were destabilizing the country, the PPP cried foul

Here is the deal.   People have a right to protest against issues that concern them.  This right exists even if the govt of the day decides to bar protest.

Did the police allow a protest? NO!!!.  So when the protest continued they cry foul.  So how is this different from what Forbes Burnham did?

The longer the PPP remains the more it morphs into the Burnhamite PNC.

Whether or not one agrees with Lindeners they have a right to protest against an issue that disturbs them.  Especially as every one knows that Linden is a one horse town, and as a result unemployment is very high.

The  PPP has blood on its hands, and it has become quite disturbing that its now a pattern of Rohee screaming for black blood when they do something he doesnt like. Coming after the racist diatribe in the Chronicle we see an emerging pattern of OPEN anti black behavior from the PPP.

It is clear they want a race war....but then, aside from wealthy Indos who will buy poor blacks off to protect them....who benefits?

You see the PPP told us that they would win in Linden and Buxton. They got stomped with both areas declaring their overwhelming discussed for what they see as a racist regime.

Now the PPP is enraged with black people and instead has orgasms over spilling black blood.

Pity because this does no good in a multi ethnic nation like Guyana.  The PPP, doing their best to foster ethnic tensions certainly isnt helping its core constituency......but we have to remember that poor Indos are just cannon fodder used by the Indo elites to ensure continued Indocratic rule....rule by rich Indos for rich Indos ONLY.

Caribj, put aside race and the mayhem of yesterday.  Do you honestly believe asking Lindeners to pay a more equitable rate is unjust?

Whats interesting is that most of these PPP communists defend the right to protest by every one, except if its against the PPP by black people.  Then its OK to shoot and kill, after denying people their legal right to protest.

It does not matter what my view on this topic is.  What matters is that people have a LEGAL right to protest.  The PPP denies AfroGuyanese the legal right to protest. 

What is sad is that the PPP suffered tremendously at the hands of Burnham's goons when they tried to protest, exercising a right denied to them by the then PNC govt.  Now that the PPP can show they are better they show that they are as evil as the PNC was in the 70s.

So if Burnham was wrong to send his goons to assault PPP supporters in the sugar estates, after denying them their right to protest, you look like a RACIST hypocrite when you apply double standards against Lindeners.

When Corentyne folks burnt down a police station a few years ago, had the police killed 4 of them you would have been screaming about blacks killing off Indos.  Running off to the UN whining about a black dominated poilice force  committed genocide against innocent Indians.

and you , in turn, are a disgusting little criminal liar, cum wannabe PPP smartman.

These 4 people were MURDERED while protesting on or near the bridge long BEFORE any 'government' building was touched!

No no no, and I agree, agree, agree, they have every right to protest.  But I just want to know what you think of the root cause issue.  Do you think it was unjust for the Govt to require Lindeners pay an equitable rate?

I'm in total agreement with you, that's why I call for a full and independent investigation and all who are responsible, bar none, must be brought to account for their actions.  It is shameful and disgraceful.

The people of Linden planned a 5-day shutdown of the town to draw the attention of their government to a POLITICAL/ECONOMIC grievance.

4 people were consequently gunned down by agents of the state as a result of their protest - the 'illegal' aspect of which would have drawn a desk appearance ticket in any civilized country.

and . . . 1 day after this horror, you have the nerve to attempt amelioration of the govt's barbarism by questioning the 'justness' of their grievance.

fetid . . . morally repugnant!!

I will wait for an independent inquiry while you cuddle the moment to disparage the government for police brutality. I will tell you this...no one was killed or hurt deliberately. We also have a legal system in Guyana where the family of the victims will get justice.

HuH . . . ?

I suggest you examine the narrative being crafted by the PPP. They are not at fault. Agents of the opposition plotting terror and intending to overthrow the government are to be blamed. In short; the PPP was defending its office not contending with protestors.

The violence against the protestors was unjust and uncalled-for.  All and any involved in causing the mayhem resulting in the innocent loss of life should be brought to account.  On the same token, the reasons for the protests were unjust.  Lindeners should pay their fair share for services, like the rest of Guyana.  One should not foreshadow the other.  Political opportunists in the Opposition are as guilty as the security forces who pulled the trigger.  The protestors also, have no right to destroy property.

sorry, I don't know what that means