COULD this accident at the corner of Crown and New Garden Streets around 17:10 h on Saturday last, have been the result of speeding? While both drivers remain tight-lipped when approached by the media, one thing is clear: Stricter observance of the Five Cs of Road Safety – Caution, Care, Courtesy, Consideration and Commonsense would have prevented this ‘smash up’ involving Toyota, HB 6102 and a Pretty Posse taxi – HA 4669.
Fortunately no one was hurt, and no other vehicle damaged, since several other cars were parked in that vicinity outside the Demerara Cricket Club at the time.

Cabinet Secretary deems bauxite union move reckless and obnoxious
HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday stated that the recent publicised move by the bauxite union to label the Government ‘racist and politically inclined’ in its actions regarding the evolution of industrial unrest at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), has been deemed as reckless.

He was speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, at which he noted that such a move, has been deemed reckless.

“To take the charge to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) for consideration is even obnoxious,” the Cabinet Secretary said.

He said this entire escalation by the union is a ‘throw-back’ and it calls to mind charges by the then General Secretary of the Guyana Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr. Lincoln Lewis, of ‘economic genocide being practised by the Government of Guyana’.

Dr Luncheon added, “The reality is that there are facts surrounding the onset and the evolution of the industrial unrest in the Berbice River, and the resolution of that industrial unrest could not be promoted by these false, unconvincing, and reckless charges.”

The HPS disclosed that, on the ground, reports are that the workers are on the job, and the company is indeed producing bauxite according to its plan.

“It is evident that the relationship between the company, the union and the workers surely needs to be addressed in a meaningful way, and this excursion, inflammatory charges and the move to the ERC, by no means qualify as a meaningful intervention,” he stated. (Priya Nauth)