Bebi Oosman

As Guyana observed Labour Day, hundreds of cane cutters on Saturday morning went on strike to demand that COVID-19 safety measures be strictly enforced at the Albion Estate in Berbice, following news that at least one of them had tested positive for the virus. 

President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne where he provided on-the-spot answers to issues raised by residents in connection with drainage, water, roads, electricity, security and streetlights.

All lined up: Bags of paddy neatly lined up in Black Bush Polder on Saturday.

The St Francis Community Developers yesterday commissioned resource centres that are expected to serve both youth and the elderly at its Port Mourant, Corentyne headquarters.

photos by Bebi Oosman Still to get official word about the findings of an investigation into the death of Corentyne mother Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo, who died last month after alleged negligence by medical officials, her family angry yesterday staged a protest across the street from the New Amsterdam Public Hospital to call for justice.

A doctor and two nurses have been suspended from the New Amsterdam Hospital after the investigation into the deaths of Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo and her baby last week found them to be negligent, Minister of Health Dr.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday assured that action will be taken against those found at fault in the death of Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo, the Corentyne mother who succumbed last Saturday morning after an unsuccessful delivery at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

As mothers continue to speak out about their experiences at the New Amster-dam Public Hospital, a young woman from Num-ber 1 Road, Corentyne, yesterday disclosed that she delivered her premature baby while standing at the facility in January.

A Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice mother yesterday said she had to deliver her premature baby on a bed in a ward at the New Amsterdam Hospital in January and she decried the treatment she experienced.

Hours after a stillbirth delivery, a 31-year-old Corentyne mother of three succumbed in the wee hours of yesterday morning, plunging her family into grief and prompting claims of negligence against staff of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

A Corentyne man was yesterday sentenced to 13 years in prison for the killing of a guard while his co-accused who was a teenager at the time of the murder was sentenced to two months in jail.

Four years after he brutally raped, murdered and dumped Leonard Archibald’s body in the Berbice River, Hillary Edwards was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.

The worst fears of two Berbice families were con-firmed yesterday morning after the bodies of their relatives, who had gone missing on Monday evening after being stranded on a sand bank at Number 63 Beach, were discovered.

Two women and a man are now missing after they were dropped off on a “sand bank” located at Number 63 Beach late Monday evening.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is working towards a production target of 97,420 metric tonnes (MT) for 2021 and it is rapidly moving ahead with maintenance as it prepares for the start of the first crop later this month.

 A Corentyne mother is now left to mourn the loss of her two sons after her husband’s brother stabbed them to death on Sunday, an attack which also left the woman hospitalised at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. 

Asif Hamid, who earlier in the month pleaded guilty to killing Henry Lallman who was found in a shallow grave back in August, 2015, was yesterday sentenced to fifteen years in prison.  

The Ministry of Agriculture is expected to pronounce soon on a proposal by farmers within the Number 52 to Number 74 Corentyne area for the fencing of land for cattle grazing.

A simple soil turning ceremony was yesterday held for the construction of a $327 million asphaltic concrete road at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, which Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said is one of six farm-to-market roads to be built this year.

A woman is now set to face just over a dozen charges after she allegedly scammed groups of men in Berbice by pretending to facilitate accredited training courses for would-be seafarers.