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Workers and other persons blocking a road at Kwakwani that leads to RUSAL’s mining operations. (File picture) RUSAL (Russian Aluminium), which shuttered bauxite mining operations in Guyana six years ago at the height of a raging industrial dispute, has agreed to return to the upper Berbice area, officials said on Monday. The first signal came from Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh in his 2026…

Witness

In this short story, a family in Guyana visits a cousin in a state asylum

The night settled around us, its sleeping trees and leaves breathing slowly to the crickets. Beyond the bushes in the yard was the concrete fence, the spool of razor wire atop it, the electric gate. We heard a muffled, thudding music approaching, and a car crept by, its lights prowling the semipaved street, its suspension creaking with the unevenness of the road. We watched the car as we smoked, then Quammie stood up and asked me if I wanted anything. He disappeared inside, and moments later I heard dub music, a record called Vital Force Dub by a Nigerian artist. The music was sparse and ominous, with heavy low end and sounds delaying and echoing in stereo, but true to its genre, it was buoyed by its rhythm. I listened, feeling a curious sensation of being in two places at once.

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