Adrian Smith

Bees attacked and killed a farmer yesterday in an area aback of Liverpool Village on the Corentyne as he was returning home from tending to his rice field.

A former policeman was brutally hacked about his body and left on a Kildonan, Corentyne street where the body was discovered in a crouching position early yesterday morning.

Dr Ivor Crandon: Poverty is no barrier to achievement This year, Emancipation celebrations at Liverpool, Corentyne were even more spectacular than last year kicking off on July 24 with a pageant, fitness walk, essay competition, soiree and a $100,000 metem-gee competition.

The Hogstye-Lancaster Ibo group outdid itself last week with a series of activities it put on to commemorate emancipation, which culminated on Saturday.

Graduates at the GuySuCo Training Centre were urged to seize all opportunities and aim for success when the 48th convocation ceremony was hosted at the Port Mourant Hostel on Friday last.

-repairs promised in four weeks Residents of Glasgow and nearby communities on the East Bank Berbice yesterday staged a protest demanding that the road in their area be fixed; standing on the road from 6 am and braving the scorching heat of the sun to demand attention to a problem they say “has been going on for years now.”

– batter owner’s wife Six men armed with guns and wearing masks stormed a business place at Lot 15A Albion Front, Corentyne on Friday just after 11 pm, and left with some $7 million after battering the wife of the owner.

Farms hard-hit Central Corentyne residents complained on Monday to Region Six Chairman Zulfikar Mustapha about the deep flooding they were experiencing and at Alness they blamed incomplete work by a contractor.Mustafa

‘Tagga’, pepper-pot and seeing the masquerade from under the bedChristmas used to be the best time of the year when I was a youngster growing up in Manchester Village with my grandmother.

Rainfall over the past week or so has left parts of the Corentyne flooded, in some areas the water is knee-high and some villagers have lost livestock.

The family of an inmate of the New Amsterdam Prison, who reportedly died last Sunday, allegedly after complaining of abdominal pains, is questioning the circumstances of his death, since they claim that according to the post-mortem report he died of strangulation.

– say promised govt assistance vital Residents who have occupied the Lamaha railway embankment for umpteen years will imminently have to relocate to, by and large, the new Parfait Harmony housing scheme on the West Bank Demerara.

An accident on Saturday night on the Corentyne killed a woman and left her cousin injured.

Corentyne Coast residents were treated to a libation ceremony, candlelight vigil and other activities as African-Guyanese hosted a number of pre-Emancipation events from Limlair to Kildonan to honour their enslaved forebears.