Morning to hear this anticipated but still sad and shocking news. Absolutely right, brian. Anticipated. Expected. Predictable but painful nonetheless. As i look around, the crowds here have grown to maybe 400 or 500 people. Mainly South Africans who were born after the birth of democracy. The socalled born frees who have no memory of the darkest years of ar par tide. They are singing and celebrating his life rather than mourning his death because, of course, his death was not in any way surprising coming almost six months to the day since he was admitted to hospital with very serious respiratory illness. People here celebrating his life, life of the man perhaps the world respects and reveres. Nelson mandela said, himself, im not a saint but a sinner who keeps on trying. Nevertheless, there is perhaps no one in this world who in the modern age has been more revered and more respected and because of that, what he gave South Africans, because of the free nation that was born under his pre
RESIDENTS of Bamboo No2, one of the areas hit by severe flooding last month, are calling for government to repair the riverbanks in their area. “We need that bank fixed. We don’t want this to happen again,” said Brian Beephat, who lives with his wife Tina Ramdeo at Mohan Trace. The couple told Newsday, in