i WONDER WHERE all THE rocks AND OTHER PROJECTILE CAME FROM.

It is sad to see the suffering of the people and all this could have been avoided if there were a responsible opposition. Dialogue was/is the key and the electricity charges taht were planned for Linden would have still meant that it would be lower than the rest of the country. But the opposition hyped it up. They are irresponsible. And you all should call a spade a spade.  

This is not only about electricity rates but many other issues which Lindeners want to discuss with the Government such as 70% unemployment in their community. If dialogue is the key as you say, why is the government now trying to hold talks with all the stakeholders involved. Why not before the protesters were shot in the back running away from the police? 

Talks were held before about a lot of issues but the opposition stymied them. About shooting in the back, let's await the outcome of the investigation.

These are disturbing times we are living in.

It'll be at leat 40 years before we hear anything. We're still waiting to hear who killed Sawh even though that imbecile that Guyana had for a leader, said that he knew the perp.

Sure he knew, he was probably the slimebag who put out the hit.

It WAS about electricity rates.  Don't shift the subject.  All the halabalu being made by the Opposition was about electricity rates.  The 70% "unemployment" is all smoking mirrors.  Who counts who is "employed" and not anyway.  Linden is a mining community, when demand drops, which it has for 30 years, there is little alternative.  Many Lindeners went off into gold mining and forestry anyway. Who is checking that.

 

Lindeners want to continue to sponge off the rest of the nation.  They are NOT that worse off than the rest, they used the cheap rates to consume 4X national average.  The political opportunists egged them on and try to hijack the agenda to achieve broader political objectives.

Have you listened to the pleas made by the protesters? They want to engage the government on many issues including electricity rates and unemployment. 

The Govt asked for a counter proposal to which there was no response.  In listening to certain opposition members on this board, there was no discussion, just no to increase.  Did you follow the writings of people like Gerhard, where was there even a proposal.  It was NO and NO.

 

The issue is, irrelevant and petty politicians wanting to score points and a feather in the cap to inject relevance in themselves.  It was all self-serving, little to do with the rights of the Lindeners.  Common sense and rational logic will dispense their position as irrational....and they know it.

What alternative is there when you have no job and hence no money to pay?

 

Regardless, they have a right to protest in the street without being murdered. 

 

I don't see the protesters in Spain, Greece and the US being slaughtered with live rounds.

Spanish getting some good rubber bullets and batons in they ass. They running faster than Linden people!

And that's the proper way to control crowds. They have been rioting for weeks in Europe with hardly any deaths. Rubber bullets are only used in extreme situations. If you use live rounds like they did in Linden, then you intend to kill people. 

 

Let the Spanish people burn down some buildings and see running of the bullets,

That's an endless perennial discussion.  No money to pay, but they are consuming 4 X the national average.  Get real, you never have money to pay bills, but never short for sporting and women.

 

Guyana is not Spain or Greece, nor Libya or Syria.  But to your point, I don't agree with the live fire and, as such, a thorough and independent investigation is warranted.

http://www.freakingnews.com/pi...f-control--16789.jpg Light saber!

@TI and all the other blood-thirsty, Blackman-hating, vengeance-seeking, power-tripping PPP clowns:

 

The Spanish police seem to be under greater 'threat' than the police in Linden, yet they respond with non-lethal force. Live rounds would be UNTHINKABLE!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/...orld-europe-18802901

 

THIS is how a civilized government that does not DISRESPECT or DEVALUE its people responds.

Since when were you concerned about "Respect" and "Value" when you were dancing, celebrating and justifying Lusignan/Bartica.

I challenge you to back up this despicable LIE.

 

[not holding my breath - I fully expect you to RUN & HIDE . . . again]

Olvidio Gonzalez, 67, a retired miner from the northern Asturias region, was hit in leg by a rubber bullet Wednesday and fell to ground. "We were walking peacefully to get to where the union leaders were speaking and they started to fire indiscriminately. There was no warning," Gonzalez said.

You reason like a petulant child

 

Rubber bullets are NOT what killed the protesters @ Linden!!

Lindeners were ‘set up’ by opposition politicians - Says Neil Kumar

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Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:37

“I’m deeply disappointed and I am grieving for the loss of innocent lives during Wednesday  night’s protests by Lindeners that turned deadly.” Neil Kumar Those were the solemn words uttered by People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament Mr. Neil Kumar, in an invited comment to this newspaper on the events that took place Wednesday night in the mining town of Linden. Mr. Kumar has worked with the people of Linden for the past 30 years and feels that Lindeners were “set up” by opposition politicians and made to believe that Government had abandoned them when this was patently untrue. According to him, Prime Minister Sam Hinds had collaborated extensively with leader of APNU David Granger and Dr. Rupert Roopnarine to craft the letter which was read in Parliament during deliberations about subsidized electricity for Linden, which in effect meant that both politicians had supported government’s position on the issue. He also feels that despite the criticisms leveled against the government about the increase in electricity tariff to Linden, Lindeners and government could have negotiated; that a compromise could have been brokered that was mutually satisfactory. The MP said he can assure the people of Linden that President Donald Ramotar and his government  are working assiduously to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. He especially lamented the burning of the Linmine Secretariat. The fire which was started by the protesters resulted in the loss of important studies and data about the bauxite industry in Guyana. In addition, machinery that was being used to lay the pipes for residents of Linden to receive potable water was also destroyed by the rampaging crowds. The PPP’s office was also destroyed in the fire. Mr. Kumar said that permission was given by the Police for the protest to be held but not for protesters to block the bridge. He opined that some Lindeners were imbibing and were also maliciously encouraged by Aubrey Norton and Lincoln Lewis. Despite all that has happened though, the MP says he has confidence in the people of Linden that they will be reasonable in their deliberations over the challenges they presently encounter. It is understood that the business community along with residents and church leaders will be holding a rally shortly in an effort to have peace and calm restored in Linden.

"He especially lamented the burning of the Linmine Secretariat. The fire which was started by the protesters resulted in the loss of important studies and data about the bauxite industry in Guyana. In addition, machinery that was being used to lay the pipes for residents of Linden to receive potable water was also destroyed by the rampaging crowds. The PPP’s office was also destroyed in the fire."

As much as I'm totally against what went down,with the police killing protestors, I find what some of the protestors did was disgraceful.

This is the same shyte that occurred here during the G2 summit and they're still laying charges against people who partook in the riots.

These people went down among the protestors with the sole reason to cause destruction.

I would like to urge everyone here to read what former Clinton Secretary of labor Robert Reich has to say about what is going on in the world today.  He has said that the capitalist system now has no other economic system to compete against.  As a result, the people at the very top of the capitalist system are now fully aiming to ensure that they remain on top by any means necessary and to try to make as much profit from the system as possible. 

 

There is no doubt in my mind that we are returning to a state of primitive capitalism. 

 

The only solution is for the PPP party and the nation to return to a leadership of justice and equality.  This can only be done by a moderate Jagan.

Yes another black hater who feels that AfroGuyanese must jsut face the wrath of the PPP, enraged that they refused to support that Indocratic and racist cabal.  Regardless as to where one stands on this they have a right to protest, unless Guyana is no longer democratic.

 

The PPP has NEVER had an interest in dialogue. It is a racist group which PUBLICLY allo0wed the publication in their rag the Chronicle that AfroGuyanese are a bunch of savages.  A group which believes in Indian domination of Guyana, and is enraged that blacks dont support that view so turned them out of Regions 4 and 10, and showed up massively against them in Region 5, where APNU enjoyed a huge upseurge in votes.

 

Now ask yourself of what good did killing and injuring people do. They voted against the PPP because they see them as a racist black hating group, and now they ahve more justification in this belief.  THE SECOND time protesting blacks were shot.

 

Do you think that people will be in the mood for dialogue, the PPP being known to pretend they wish "dialogue" when backed nto a corner...but weeks later reverting back to their arrogance.

 

 

 

Ramotar=Burnham.  Burnham assaulted Indians in the sugar estates. Ramotar assaulted blacks on the streets of G/twn and now Linden.

The people of Linden have had 20 years to suffer under PPP ruie. In November 2011 they told the PPP in large numbers that they are a racist black hating cabal.

 

Kumar admit to this and stop chtting NONSENSE...and take your stooge Hinds with you.

Caribny you see how they honoring Chase now.  The man who brought Burnham to the PPP.  

 

Chase=Burnham=Jagdeo=Ramotar.

It is not unreasonable to assume that many of that destruction were carried out by agents of the PPP in order to blame the opposition parties.

Maybe it was these PPP agents who got shot! This would explain the police shooting!

HOW COME jIM jONES MISSED THIS IDIOT????

Tension grips Linden after police killings

Cleared streets but an uneasy mood permeated the town of Linden yesterday, hours after a nasty battle between law enforcement officers and protesting residents left three persons dead following protests against electricity rate hikes.
It could take months even years to heal the rift between the people of Linden and the police – such is the distrust that exists following the killing of Shemroy Bouyea, 24, Ron Somerset, 19, and Ivan Lewis, 46, all of Wisroc , Linden.
The bitterness was most evident at the Linden Hospital Complex where scores converged to be with their injured relatives, one of whom was in a critical condition.
Among the injured in hospital are Michael Roberts, 47, of Independence Avenue, McKenzie, who is nursing a gunshot wound to the right side face; Hector Solomon, 23, of Wismar, who is being treated for a gunshot wound to the chest; Ulric Michael, 33, of Canvas City, who also sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and is reportedly in a critical condition at the Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit; Reuben Bower, 56, of Silver City, who suffered a gunshot wound to the left leg and Dexter Scotland, 38, of Victory Valley, who is being treated for trauma to the nose.
Also hospitalized are Janice Burgan, 52, of Industrial Area, who sustained a gunshot wound to the back; Dwight Yaw, 25, of Victory Valley, who suffered a gunshot wound to the left side and Cleveland Barker ,35, of Wisroc, shot in the back; Yolanda Hinds, 35, of Silvertown, who sustained a gunshot wound to the right leg; Brian Charles, 45 of Wismar; who suffered trauma to his right hand and Collis Duke, 26, who sustained a gunshot wound to the left side of his face.
Jermain Allicock, 35, of Wismar, who sustained a gunshot to the left buttocks; Alice Barker, 31, of Wismar, who suffered gunshot wounds to both legs; Nalini Spencer, 37, of Watooka, with a wound to the left shoulder; Sandar Lyte, 27, of Christianburg, trauma to the head;Ann Bobb-Semple, 34, of Mckenzie, who sustained shots and pellet wounds to the back, side and elbow and Collis Adams, 27, who received a shot to the neck and right ankle, are also patients at the hospital.

The patients were loud in their praise for the staff at the hospital who they said worked overtime to ensure that they received the best possible treatment and minimized their distress.
Jean Damond, the mother of national athletic star Marian Burnette, said she was on the bridge at around midnight helping to cook for the protestors when the Police came up and took the goods and threw it overboard.
She spoke to Kaieteur News where she was visiting her son, William Burnette, 35. Burnette said he was among the protestors when he received pellet shots to the left side of his head. He fell into a gutter, but got out and ran to the hospital when he really realized he was shot.
Lennox Campbell, 65, said he was on his way home when he was shot.
Janice Burgan said she was among the protestors earlier when they were confronted by Police ranks and asked to disperse.
From her hospital bed, she related that earlier in the day the Joint Services ranks began to release tear gas into the crowd forcing them to run to safety.
“First they come and scare we a little, and we get them to go away, but about 5:30 in the afternoon they come back and start with the tear gas again, and all I hear is a boy start shouting that the police shooting, and I turn around to run and I just feel a numbness in my back,” she said.
Grimacing in pain, the woman related that she fell to the ground but was eventually assisted to the hospital.  An x-ray revealed that a bullet was lodged in her back.
“The doctor said it’s hard to remove the bullet because of the position it in, so they may have to take me for surgery in Georgetown.
Jahmeke Brumell the youngest injured person said he was in the crowd walking away when he heard the gunfire erupting.
“I turn around to call a friend and all I hear is ‘blam blam’  and I fall down; and I just feel blood running down me foot.”
The lad recounted that it was an elderly woman who started screaming for help and who rendered assistance to him.
“The police start holler on she and telling she lef me leh I dead, but she collect a belt and a piece of cloth and tie up me foot.”
All of the injured and their relatives lamented the use of live rounds by the police and of course they are thankful that they are alive, since they are convinced that the police were out to kill all those who were protesting.

Early yesterday morning when reporters from this newspaper arrived in Linden, the mining town appeared to be a war zone with burnt out buildings creating the impression of a massive airstrike; while burnt debris and the charred remains of a truck and excavator littered the roadway.
It was just a reminder of the mayhem which erupted after what is being described as the senseless shooting by the police.
Just before noon, scores of residents were gathering for the second day; this time, their anger had shifted from the electricity rate hikes to the Police action the day before.
Residents recalled the antagonistic behaviour by the Police, including the dumping of a complete sound system and food items they were going to cook, into the Demerara River.
However any attempt to repeat the blocking of the vital Wismar-McKenzie Bridge were thwarted as members of the joint services took up positions on both sides to ensure that there was no hindrance to vehicle flow.
The ranks were forced to endure severe verbal abuse from residents who chastised them for their highhanded approach. But even as the joint services did their work on the bridge, residents found other ways to ensure that their protests succeeded.
Using huge logs taken from a burnt out truck, they blocked the road on the Wismar side of the bridge, effectively halting traffic. It was not until late yesterday afternoon with much effort that the joint services ranks were able to remove the obstacles.
However, problems still remain as ‘trenches’ were dug in several sections of the roads in Wismar.
All businesses including banks remained closed yesterday and from all indications, they will remain closed for a few days more. This could spell hardship for residents as already vehicle owners are feeling the effects of a shortage of fuel. They are however hoping that the electricity supply which was sporadic for the most part of yesterday and the day before, remain stable.

the g2 summit had lots of distruction and still no one was shot and kill and they did a inquiry and blame the police for some of the action,in fact they is law suit against the police taking place right now in court please do not compare the ppp shit with the canadians laws and action

That is why Guyanese Proyestor must be careful. GPF is NOT well trained to deal with disturbances. You kno what they say about catching crabs.

OK when you say this you show you racist you are.  BOSAI hired a few hundred.  Clearly a drop of the labor pool.  Linden is surrounded by infertile sand so offers few other opportunities.

 

But you pretend as if unemployment isnt the issue when it ha sbeen for decades now.

 

Any way you and the PPP have been thirsting for a race war and sadly you might well get it.

shooting a man in the back is murder,and is only done by cowards,what is the difference between the 1980 and now the only thing is different color of the skin,but its same guyana and the same shit i feel sorry for you stupid guyanese that support the police that shoot these people,it tell me you was never in the struggle against burham so you do not know what it feels like

Oi, mr short-term memory . . . wasn't it YOU rhapsodizng yesterday about "our Professional Police Force" . . .

 

what a sorry ass clown, smh

You are NOT only a JACKASS but a PROVEN DUNCE. Cant a Professional Police Force not well trained in dealing with disturbances??? What a blood FOOL.

You really attened school??? If yes, was it in Bihar???

What does that have to o with racism, you cheap-shot politico?  How about all the Lindeners who are into forestry and gold mining, how about commercial ops, etc?  Furthermore, how bad off are they that they need to pay less but burn 4 X the national average for electricity?

 

Are you that dumb, or just playing dumb. Get over it, they have to come on par with the national average, eventually.  The GoG IS correct.