Mandy Thompson

Soesdyke sits at the entrance to the Linden Highway, and had its first Mashramani celebrations last Saturday.

Sections of Georgetown were flooded yesterday afternoon after high tides bashed the Kingston koker door in and engineers were at press time putting in place a temporary wall to keep out the next high tide scheduled for 5.21 am today.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street for their views about the dress code at the National Cultural Centre and whether they thought it should be relaxed so that patrons could wear jeans, Capri pants and boots as is the case in theatres around the world.

A pensioner, who was struck down by a minibus on Friday along the Public Road at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD), died yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and relatives are blaming health officials for his death citing negligence.

Sixty-six-year-old Kubert George will spend the rest of his natural life in prison after he was found guilty yesterday of murdering his former partner Patricia Rose and was sentenced to 60 years in jail.

Kubert George, accused of murdering his former partner Patricia Rose four years ago, yesterday told a jury that police had fabricated a confession in the statement he gave to them about his last meeting with the woman.

After you pass the canefields of Wales and Patentia along the Demerara River you come to the quiet village of Vive-la-Force, which takes its name from a colonial plantation.

Dennis Wharton, who admitted to fatally chopping a woman with whom he claimed to have had a relationship, will serve the next 28 years in jail.

Family members of two of the three men who were shot dead at the start of last year’s Linden protest yesterday testified about their contributions to their families before the Commission of Inquiry (COI) looking at their deaths and compensation.

A man who was shot in the right eye during last year’s protest in Linden was among the four persons who made compensation claims to the Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) yesterday Leslie Stephens, who was part of the protest actions when he was shot in the right eye, David Shemroy Vigilance and two businessmen, Vishnu Singh and Carlton Mohan, whose trucks were destroyed, catalogued their losses to members of the COI, when hearings continued at the Supreme Court Law Library.

Nine more witnesses, including persons whose businesses were destroyed in the July 18 and 19 Linden protest, testified before the Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) yesterday as it continued to hear the testimony of those seeking compensation for their losses.

The Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) has deemed the compensation sought by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) for the destruction by fire of the Linmine Secretariat on July 18, 2012 as absurd and leading to a dead end.

Canal No 2 Polder on the West Bank of Demerara is one of those rapidly developing communities in the countryside where movable shops on buses and trucks take care of residents’ consumption needs.

A massive clean-up was underway yesterday to remove huge amounts of garbage that accumulated along the East Coast of Demerara road between Kitty and Turkeyen, less than 24 hours after spring tides flooded the area.

Situated almost on the outskirts of Georgetown along the East Coast of Demerara is the community of Vigilance.

The early closure of the Haag Bosch landfill site during the holiday season was a result of the failure of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to bear the additional operations cost, according to Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker.