Bees attack, kill Liverpool farmer
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. Dead is 45-year-old Jerome O’Brian Scott also known as ‘Bunch’ of Liverpool Village. According to his son, Michael Scott, he and his father left home in the morning [...]
Ex-cop hacked to death at Kildonan
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. Dead is Sheldon Matheson, called ‘Mossi’, 32, of Lot 40 Alness village. He was found close to a roadside stall and his body bore a gaping wound [...]
Liverpool staged packed emancipation programme
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. Tacianna Sharpe of Limlair Village beat seven other contestants and was crowned Miss Emancipation [...]
Massive emancipation celebration closes week of activities by Corentyne group
The Hogstye-Lancaster Ibo group outdid itself last week with a series of activities it put on to commemorate emancipation, which culminated on Saturday. For the first time, the group used the Liverpool Community centre to hold its Emancipation Day Celebration which was well attended. Delivering the feature address, Dr Grantley Walrond, who lives in Georgetown [...]
Guysuco graduates urged to use their skills to make industry more viable
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. In his address Manager of the Centre Floyd F Scott told the graduates that complacency and mediocrity had no place in their profession. Scott [...]
East Bank Berbice residents protest over state of road
-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 [...]
Armed gang grabs some $7 million from Albion shop
– 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. A police press release said they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred around [...]
Central Corentyne sloshing through floods
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 visited flood-affected areas in the Central Corentyne on Monday. Residents there came out and voiced their concerns as their living conditions were poor. According [...]
Christmas in Manchester
‘Tagga’, pepper-pot and seeing the masquerade from under the bed Christmas used to be the best time of the year when I was a youngster growing up in Manchester Village with my grandmother. You knew Christmas was in the air when the children started playing ‘tagga’, a game played for rubber bands, which were only [...]
Manchester swamped; villagers lament losses
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. Stabroek News visited a few of the affected areas yesterday. In the southern part of Manchester Village, commonly known as “Building”, the flood water was as high as [...]
Family seeking answers to prison inmate’s death
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. Dead is Cheddi Brijbilas of Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder, who was incarcerated at the [...]
Some railway line residents eager to move to new housing scheme
– 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. Stabroek News had reported on August 19 that high-power lines to facilitate power expansion are to be strung [...]
Woman dies in Ulverston accident
An accident on Saturday night on the Corentyne killed a woman and left her cousin injured. Dead is 20-year-old Onika Taylor, also known as ‘Nicky’, of Ulverston village and formerly of Islington, East Bank Berbice. An eyewitness said he was standing on his bridge, facing the road, at about 8.40 pm when a blue 9-seater [...]
Corentyne villages in Freedom Day activities
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. Hundreds of spectators from Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Limlair and Nurney turned out to take part in the libation; the pouring out of a small [...]