ELDERLY persons within the Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara community were yesterday treated to an Emancipation Day brunch by that Police Station Management Committee.
This event, held in collaboration with the ‘C’ Division police of East Coast Demerara, has been ongoing for three years now, and sees elderly persons being invited to the station to be treated to a meal, and the oldest person in attendance receiving a hamper.

This year’s recipient of the hamper is 91-year-old Blanche Duke, the eldest recipient to date. Janice Smith, 90, and Ms. Pollard, 89, were also recipients of hampers.

Meanwhile, the Station Management Committee has issued a call for the police and the community to work together as a unit to strengthen and enhance police/civilian relations.

“The needs are brought from the committee liaising with the police about major social problems (that the police) can act on, or any offences that the police may have overlooked,” according to the statement from the committee. (Navendra Seoraj)