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By Gaulbert Sutherland | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 3 Comments
– koker blocked, pump not working
Accumulated water on low-lying areas of the Essequibo Coast is causing discomfort to residents and a koker and at least …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Friday, December 12, 2008 | 15 Comments
Flooding affects Canal No.2
Heavy rain over the past several days has raised the water level in the West Demerara Conservancy resulting in minor overtopping in …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 26 Comments
Local material lasted only six months
At 30, critical parts sag or are worn out and for some there is a feeling of trepidation when traversing …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Monday, December 8, 2008 | 18 Comments
Victim robbed of cash, jewellery
A 27-year-old man died and two persons were injured after the car that they were in, crashed into a bridge at …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, December 6, 2008 | 45 Comments
-President unveils avoided deforestation position
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday unveiled Guyana’s position on avoided deforestation and argued that the REDD mechanism must back compensatory economic alternatives …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, December 6, 2008 | 50 Comments
Jewels missing, women held
The body of a 41-year-old man, with two gaping wounds to his forehead, was discovered in his Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara home …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Friday, November 7, 2008 | 119 Comments
Gunmen yesterday pounced on a GEB security van, grabbing a $17M GuySuCo payroll on the West Bank Demerara highway and one of them was later …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 19 Comments
-traffic badly hit
A weakened portion of a decking plate on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) gave way under the weight of a truck yesterday afternoon, …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, November 1, 2008 | 40 Comments
Electricity generation countrywide is still “tight” but should improve before Christmas, Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Board, Winston Brassington and Prime Minister …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, October 25, 2008 | 79 Comments
Driver shot, passengers robbed
Heavily armed bandits struck on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway last night, shooting the driver and a female passenger of a mini-bus that was …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | 7 Comments
La Grange Police Station phone was not working
The man detained by police following the fatal robbery on Monday at Canal Number Two remains in custody …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 93 Comments
- face was tightly bound; bandits escape with over $1M
Bandits struck at a Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning, tightly …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Friday, October 17, 2008 | 42 Comments
Rescuer knifed to death by village bully
Attempting to stop a group of men from assaulting another man, a 27-year-old mason was stabbed to death at …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 13 Comments
Unarmed cops arrived one hour after to take ‘facts’
The victims of Tuesday evening’s Tuschen robbery yesterday criticised the police for what they said was a …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | 29 Comments
Batter, rob family of $6M
Heavily-armed gunmen last evening stormed a grocery at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo firing shots and robbing a family of $6M …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Sunday, September 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
- BK offer under review
Thrust briefly into the spotlight in the aftermath of the Bartica massacre when Joint Services ranks were forced to divert an …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
-fire service
Investigations by the Guyana Fire Service have confirmed that the fire that claimed the lives of three girls and destroyed a dormitory at the …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | 81 Comments
The scars on one hand mark where she was burned; the wires holding her slippers together scream poverty; she watches closely over her two little …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | 7 Comments
There is a saying among many persons who drive through and within Guyana’s interior that meeting a turtle is bad luck. Since these people travel …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
Up to yesterday morning some 73 persons had made alternative arrangements to get their stranded children home from Cuba via the Jim Bacchus Travel Service …
