By Shabna Ullah | Saturday, March 28, 2009 | 13 Comments
-Rohee urges Berbicians to embrace it
At the recommissioning of the Felix Austin Police College yesterday Berbicians were encouraged to embrace the recruitment drive and …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, March 23, 2009 | 14 Comments
Bandits went on a rampage at Bush Lot, West Berbice early yesterday morning, breaking into two homes and several businesses and in the worst of …
By Shabna Ullah | Saturday, March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
The new Skeldon sugar factory has finally achieved its uninterrupted 72-hour trial run and has started to produce sugar of export quality but parliamentary Economic …
By Shabna Ullah | Friday, March 20, 2009 | 10 Comments
Three masked bandits, armed with a gun and two cutlasses, terrorized a jeweller and his two-year-old son at Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, Corentyne and robbed …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, March 19, 2009 | 12 Comments
-testing to continue
After experiencing hurdles with the start up and interruptions from poor conditions, the new Skeldon Sugar Factory has produced “several hundred tonnes” of …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
One week after a father of four was badly burnt during a fire that destroyed his two-bedroom house at Bath Settlement, West Berbice he is …
By Shabna Ullah | Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 32 Comments
Commuters crossing the Berbice River Bridge with SUVs, pick-ups and trucks have been enjoying a reduction in toll charges from March 1 following an intervention …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, March 2, 2009 | 96 Comments
-NA double murder suspect
A suspect who was arrested in connection with the Smyth-field, New Amsterdam double murder said he was treated “worse than Guyana’s most …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, March 2, 2009 | 88 Comments
President Bharrat Jagdeo lambasted journalists yesterday for not reporting the news accurately and for distorting the facts to make the government look bad, labelling them …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | 11 Comments
-post-mortem shows blunt trauma
The funeral of a De Willem man was stopped by police on Tuesday after they received information that he might have been …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | 27 Comments
Captain clung to rope for more than a day
A 17-year-old boy is missing and feared dead following a mishap with a 30-ft fishing boat around …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Residents of Glasgow, East Berbice are fearful that soon “the sea would wash away into the village” and force them to abandon their land and …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, February 16, 2009 | 47 Comments
-US-based Guyanese held
Two women were brutally stabbed to death early yesterday morning at Smythfield, New Amsterdam and an overseas-based suspect was arrested at a house …
By Shabna Ullah | Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 34 Comments
A 26-year-old Grove man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre yesterday after he was allegedly stabbed by another tenant of a …
By Shabna Ullah | Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 6 Comments
Almost two months after the banks of the Mahaica Creek were flooded resulting in heavy losses of crops and livestock, residents have finally started to …
By Shabna Ullah | Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 28 Comments
– in recent blaze that killed four
Faulty fire hydrants in New Amsterdam are said to be the reason for the fire service not accessing enough …
By Shabna Ullah | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 25 Comments
Floodwaters in the Mahaica Creek rose again by two inches yesterday following heavy rainfall after having receded by about a foot last week, which had …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, January 26, 2009 | 28 Comments
Even as there is excitement that the Berbice River Bridge has finally become a reality businesspersons especially in the vicinity of the stellings have complained …
By Shabna Ullah | Monday, January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments
- PNCR-1G councillors miffed
This year, Mashramani celebrations would be held at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground in Region Five for the first time in …
By Shabna Ullah | Sunday, January 25, 2009 | 73 Comments
Two adults and two children as well as five dogs perished around 1.40 am yesterday in a blaze which swept through their heavily grilled Charlotte …