Berbice family loses $3M after herb farm sabotaged

A 68-year-old pensioner and her son of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice suffered losses amounting to $3 million after their one-acre farm was destroyed in an apparent attack.

Amaloon Bickram told Stabroek News that her son, Harriram Seelall suspected that the celery and eschallot farm was “sprayed” with a poisonous substance on Monday morning.

Seelall had gone to water the plants when he noticed that they had started to