By Sara Bharrat | Saturday, March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Rice miller and farmer Beni Sankar says he doesn’t think that the recent slashing of the export commission will enable millers to pay growers more …
By Sara Bharrat | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | 17 Comments
Relative says threatened by assailant
The six-month-old baby injured when her mother was attacked by an ex-lover remained in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital …
By Sara Bharrat | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 99 Comments
– cops seeking ex-lover
A 21-year-old woman, her six-month-old baby and two female relatives were admitted as patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after her …
By Sara Bharrat | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 66 Comments
“People talking say I kill them but wa me go kill them for…,” Bibi Rafzia Grovesnor, the mother of the dead Ramdeen sisters, sobbed repeatedly …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, March 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
This week we asked the man/woman in the street how the Mayor and City Council should spend the government grant of $10M per month for …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, March 16, 2009 | 6 Comments
This week we asked the man/woman in the street if lie detectors should be used at workplaces to determine honesty and if they would be …
By Sara Bharrat | Friday, March 6, 2009 | 81 Comments
A 15-year-old of Block ‘R’, North Sophia was fatally shot in the left eye during an attempted robbery in the neighbourhood last night.
Warren Scotland sustained …
By Sara Bharrat | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
-dismisses ‘pressure group’ as unlawful
Faced with growing dissatisfaction over prices being offered by rice millers for paddy, the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) yesterday urged …
By Sara Bharrat | Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | 47 Comments
Over 300 Albouystown households suspected to be stealing electricity from the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) have been targeted in a major loss reduction …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, March 2, 2009 | 24 Comments
photos by Jules Gibson
This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they knew what the word daggering meant and if it should be …
By Sara Bharrat | Friday, February 27, 2009 | 96 Comments
-was bound and gagged, robbery suspected
An elderly man, his hands and feet bound, was found dead in his D’Urban Backlands home yesterday, in an apparent …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, February 16, 2009 | 44 Comments
This week we asked the man, woman in the street what they thought about the cross-dressing charges that were brought against seven men last week.
Noleander …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, February 9, 2009 | 96 Comments
-Husband being guarded at hospital
A Festival City cosmetologist died yesterday morning after being stabbed on Saturday and her husband who is the suspect was …
By Sara Bharrat | Monday, February 2, 2009 | 14 Comments
This week we asked the man/woman in the street what they had to say about the police campaign to remove offensive slogans and names from …
By Sara Bharrat | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 98 Comments
Ann Rosita Boodhoo is the mother of the four Mahaicony Creek children who have been left to fend for themselves but her slim frame, innocent …
By Sara Bharrat | Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 13 Comments
Bandits storm Enterprise house, jump from moving car after police chase
A Plaisance businessman was injured during a robbery yesterday morning and an Enterprise family was …
By Sara Bharrat | Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Despite sporadic heavy showers along the East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Thursday there was no increase in water levels and residents were gratified though in …
By Sara Bharrat | Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 9 Comments
Residents not confident of drainage structures
Heavy rainfall from Thursday night which continued sporadically throughout yesterday has caused floodwater levels to rise again along the East …
By Sara Bharrat | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | 10 Comments
Dochfour remained swamped yesterday in the floodwater which began to accumulate for a second time over the weekend as a result of recent heavy rainfall …
By Sara Bharrat | Saturday, January 3, 2009 | 11 Comments
Residents still wary
The drainage authorities have finally managed to free Dochfour residents of the inches of floodwaters which caused them misery for just over three …