As water rises, Mahaica Creek farmers plea for end to conservancy flooding
With water levels in the Mahaica Creek rising substantially over the previous two days, cash crop farmers yesterday pleaded for authorities to discontinue releasing water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the area. The communities in the area have seen a drastic increase in the water level around their environs and yesterday the [...]
Losses pile up for Mahaica Creek farmers
Farmers living along the banks of the Mahaica Creek were yesterday counting numerous losses as water being released from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) flooded several farms in the area. The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday said controlled release of excess water through the Maduni outlet at the EDWC and via the Land of Canaan, [...]
East Coast swamped by continuing rain
As rainfall persisted for most of yesterday, several villages along the East Coast of Demerara were waterlogged, including Dazzell Housing Scheme, where residents appealed for better drainage to prevent recurring floods in the community. With rain continuing to hit areas along the coastland, the Agriculture Ministry said mobile pumps had been deployed along the East [...]
Parts of East Coast in flood woes
The East Coast of Demerara was bracing for more rain today after heavy, persistent downpours yesterday left low-lying areas under inches of water. Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy told Stabroek News last evening that all engineers attached to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) were out in the fields monitoring kokers sluices and [...]
Kumaka waterfront still under threat
The Aruka River continues to eat away at the nearby Kumaka waterfront, in the Mabaruma sub-region of Region One, where new revetments have started to sink into the river. The community has been threatened by the river for several years and sometime in July last year, the Public Works Ministry via the regional administration mobilized [...]
Probe underway into Essequibo maternal death
The Health Ministry is investigating the death of a 32-year old woman on Christmas night, two weeks after giving birth to a baby boy at the Suddie Hospital. According to Jean Bharrat, her daughter Taunugha Harnandan, called ‘Talifa,’ of Lot 288, Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast was admitted
Kuru Kuru
Located some 8 miles up the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, the sparsely populated community of Kuru Kuru is struggling as residents plead with the authorities to develop the area. Kuru Kuru, which was once home to the GDF army base Camp Alpha, thrived as a community in the 1970s and ’90s as it was built
Diamond 25,000-person scheme growing, residents want better services
More than a decade after it was established as a community for those in need of a house, the ambitious Diamond Scheme on the East Bank of Demerara continues to grow but as the area expands residents are calling on the authorities to upkeep critical services. The housing scheme, which is home to more than [...]
Diamond 25,000-person scheme growing, residents want better services
More than a decade after it was established as a community for those in need of a house, the ambitious Diamond Scheme on the East Bank of Demerara continues to grow but as the area expands residents are calling on the authorities to upkeep critical services. The housing scheme, which is home to more than [...]
Chinowieng villagers still waiting for answers on dead fish
As dead fish continue to turn up in their waterways, villagers of Chinowieng, in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni area, are still awaiting the results of tests on samples collected by the authorities. A resident of the community of Jawalla, which is located in the Mazaruni area, in Region 7, told this newspaper yesterday that he has travelled [...]
![APNU presidential candidate David Granger [left] along with Joseph Harmon and attorney-at-law Basil Williams [centre and right respectively] as they left the Brickdam Police Station compound yesterday.](http://www.stabroeknews.com/images/2011/12/20111207granger-160x120.jpg)
Cops fire on APNU protestors
Riot police fired rubber bullets at protestors in an illegal march in the city yesterday as APNU continued to press for the release of statements of poll from last week’s elections, copies of which will now be released following private sector intervention. (See other story on page 10.) Police reported that they fired on protestors [...]
Voting underway
Guyanese across the ten administrative regions headed to the polls today to elect a new government and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday emphasized that everything is in place. Hundreds began filing into polling stations all across the country from very early this morning. Although polling did not start until 6 am, lines began forming [...]
Barnwell
“This community future hinge on three things – water, light and roads,” says Vanessa O’Donoghue, a resident of the small community of Barnwell on the East Bank of Demerara. O’Donoghue is one of several residents of the community of approximately 700 persons who settled in the area more than two decades ago. Barnwell is located [...]
Goed Fortuin woman dies after struck by speeding bus
A 54-year old mother of five died yesterday afternoon after she was struck down on the Goed Fortuin Public Road on the West Bank of Demerara (WBD) by a speeding mini-bus. Dead is Bidwantie Cyril of Lot 300, Goed Fortuin Sideline Dam, WBD. Reports are that around midday yesterday, Cyril had moments earlier left a [...]
Trotman, Benschop take change message to Buxton
Buxtonians turned out in hundreds on Friday evening at the market tarmac to hear the AFC’s Raphael Trotman and Mark Benschop plug the message of change. AFC Prime Ministerial Candidate Trotman, in a spirited address to the gathering of more than 300 persons who flocked the Buxton market square , told the residents that the [...]