Bebi Oosman

Devi Samaroo, who died at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital on Sunday after a stillbirth delivery, succumbed as a result of blood clots in her lungs, an autopsy has found.

A Bloomfield man is now mourning the loss of his wife and baby at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital over the weekend.

The sod was turned yesterday afternoon to mark the start of the construction of the Amaya Milk Company’s $150 million state-of-the-art milk processing facility at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, which is expected to produce pasteurized milk for store shelves by the end of April  next year.

Region Six’s top performing students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), are all aspiring to great heights. 

Several vehicles were involved in a pile-up just before midday yesterday at Foulis, West Coast Bebrice leaving a driver seriously hurt and others with minor injuries.

The Food For The Poor (Guyana) Incorporated on Friday handed over 10 semi-furnished houses to residents of Region Six, fulfilling their dreams of finally becoming homeowners.

Three Berbice residents were killed in separate bee attacks on Thursday and yesterday.

-Berbicians to be trained for oil and gas under Clem Sankat photos by Bebi Oosman Vice President  Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced in Region Six that thousands of sugar workers severed under the former APNU+AFC administration will each receive a $250,000 grant at least by the end of January, 2022, regardless of their employment status.

A Warren Village, Corentyne couple is now traumatised after two bandits invaded their premises on Sunday evening.  

Close to 200 of the Albion Estate’s cane harvesters took to the streets yesterday to protest for financial assistance due to the impact of the May/June floods, which damaged the estate’s sugar cane, resulting in a drastic drop in their weekly earnings since the start of the new crop.

A Port Mourant man who was wanted for the attempted murder of his wife was thwarted in his bid to escape when US authorities at the JFK Airport in New York denied him entry and sent him back to Guyana where he is now in the custody of the police.

Community activist Veerasammy Ramayya yesterday resigned as the Coordinator for President Irfaan Ali’s Rapid Res-ponse Taskforce in Region Six stating that he had been insulted by a senior government official and that he was unable to work with regional officials who seemed to have an issue with him reporting directly to the President. 

Region Six’s primary and nursery schools reopened yesterday for face-to-face learning but while there was a poor turnout of students overall, parents who opted to send their children to school were happy with the arrangements.

A Hindu priest from Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne was beaten to death on Saturday night after he attempted to disperse a group of men who were drinking in front of his residence and were allegedly verbally abusing his daughters.

After losing her husband in a pirate attack in 2018, Corentyne resident Taramattie Abrahim was forced to start over.

An East Canje, Berbice businessman now has to take added security precautions after someone torched three of his vehicles which were parked at his premises on Tuesday evening.

A group of tractor operators are accusing the government through the Region Six regional administration of reneging on an agreement to pay them $5,000 per hour for pumping water from communities during the recent floods.

Malisha Dutchin, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Hemraj Pardesi, was today charged with the crime alongside an alleged accomplice, even as police continued a hunt for a third accused.

A Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice man was murdered yesterday and money he had withdrawn from a bank the day before was carted off by the killers.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on Thursday spearheaded the donation of 3,800 chicks and 171 bags of feed to flood-affected farmers in the Mahaica-Mahaicony area.