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Caribbean & Central America - August 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUYANA: Linden unrest has deep roots
On 18 July, protesters in Guyana’s second largest town, Linden, demonstrating at a proposed cutting in their (substantial) electricity subsidy, found themselves in a lethal confrontation with the police in which three protesters were shot dead and 20 wounded. It is not the first time that violent unrest in Linden has cost lives.
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