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By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 53 Comments
The Ministry of Human Services & Social Security removed 10-year-old Anita Pooranmal and her three younger siblings whom she had to care for from their …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
Residents disappointed that creek not dredged
Residents of the Abary Creek are disappointed that although President Bharrat Jagdeo had given instructions for the mouth of the …
By Shabna Ullah | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 103 Comments
Ten-year-old girls should be going to school and enjoying their childhood. Not Anita Pooranmal of Mahaicony Creek, she has to cook and care for her …
By Shabna Ullah | Friday, January 16, 2009 | 64 Comments
-flooded Mahaicony residents ask
Even as hopes rise with the drop of the water level in the Mahaicony Creek, residents say there is nothing else for …
By Shabna Ullah | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 17 Comments
Story and photos by Shabna Ullah
With their crops already washed away and no means of earning a living, residents of the Mahaica Creek have nothing …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | 13 Comments
-admits killing some in June
A livestock farmer of Lovely Lass Village, West Berbice who is disgusted that dogs from the nearby Bush Lot village continue …
By Shabna Ullah | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | 104 Comments
Residents of the Abary, Mahaicony and Mahaica creeks were told yesterday that a canal would be dug to drain the excessive rainfall water from the …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, January 1, 2009 | 72 Comments
Cattle being sold out
As the rain continues the Abary Creek has been flooded and residents have suffered losses to crops and livestock and some are …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | 10 Comments
Frustrated residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks continue to endure rising levels of floodwater after the Maduni sluice was opened following intense rainfall one …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | 66 Comments
… opting to wait for the ferry
Despite the long wait for the bridge across the Berbice River which was opened to the public on December …
By Shabna Ullah | Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 21 Comments
-farmers blame release of water from conservancy
After three weeks of intense rainfall, residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony Creeks who had tried desperately to keep …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, December 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
– residents lament the death of a tradition
The masquerade band – the main attraction in New Amsterdam that made the Christmas season “bright long ago” …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 | 123 Comments
A sixteen-year-old promise by the PPP/C government was delivered on yesterday when there was a limited opening of the bridge across the Berbice River and …
By Shabna Ullah | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 | 17 Comments
Wounds healing, but Rosignol mother can’t forget daughter’s horrible murder
The wounds of a Rosignol, West Coast Berbice woman are slowly healing but the horror of …
By Shabna Ullah | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 7 Comments
- residents say operator did not open koker door
Residents of Ithaca woke up to even worse flooding yesterday morning just when they thought their problems …
By Shabna Ullah | Friday, December 19, 2008 | 48 Comments
-hospitalised at Fort Wellington
A Number 22 Bel Air mother and two of her four children were doused with a flammable liquid and set alight around …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 6 Comments
Residents of Ithaca who were affected by flooding after the sluice door broke early Monday morning said the situation has improved somewhat after work was …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments
Some crops affected
As the rains continue, the water level in the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks has slowly started to rise and a few residents have …
By Shabna Ullah | Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments
Twelve-year-old Ravi Dave Sain of Experiment Bath, West Berbice was diagnosed with cancer in the nose and brain over one year ago but even after …
By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | 8 Comments
-after sluice door breaks
Ithaca residents suffered major losses when a sluice door broke away and flooded the community yesterday, swamping cash crop gardens and destroying …
