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Bamia affording Moraikobai farming family a living - Stabroek News

More than half a century after the commissioning of the roughly 45-mile Soesdyke-Linden Highway, the vast expanse of land that sits off its shoulder is still to fulfill the purpose for which it had been designated.

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