Despite the current El Niño conditions, farmers in Region Six are enjoying adequate water for their crops as the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is “working around the clock” on the drainage and irrigation (D&I) systems.
-4,000 plants destroyed Police arrested three persons on Saturday and destroyed a marijuana field and two camps while seizing a quantity of chemicals and other items during a raid at Sand Hills, 60 miles up the Berbice River.
The aunt and uncle of three-year-old Charran ‘Sanjay’ Sahadeo were refused bail when they appeared before Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Blairmont Court yesterday charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.
The three-year-old child who was hospitalized on Saturday at the Fort Wellington Hospital after a severe beating is expected to be placed in protective custody and charges are likely to be laid against his relatives.
-brother held A 27-year-old woman who was trying to save her sister from being attacked ended up being badly chopped on her head and left hand around 1:30 pm yesterday at Number 29 Village.
Although he is bedridden, Richard Fresco’s dream of getting a better home for his mother is closer to becoming a reality.
In light of the current dry conditions, President Bharrat Jagdeo has encouraged farmers in the Mahaicony area to look at diversification as a long term solution so that they can survive during the “toughest times.”
A 28-year-old labourer of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice succumbed to injuries he sustained to his face and head during a beating around 8:30 pm on Boxing Day and two persons have since been arrested.
…Aunt Irene on mission to provide whatever she can Thirteen-year-old Kerry Edwards of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam would never enjoy Christmas again because her mother, Gertrude Benn, 31, who made it special for her was brutally murdered at Ithaca, West Bank Berbice on May 8.
A Diamond, East Bank Demerara man lost his life after the Canter truck he was travelling in slammed into a concrete fence at Number 4 Village, West Berbice yesterday morning.
– also to address ‘house cleaning’ Berbice’s new Commander, Stephen Merai, is “up and running” with a new strategy to bring crime under control but says he needs to do some “cleaning out” of the force.
-boy was chained, locked away A woman of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice was arrested on Wednesday following reports that she was abusing her eight-year-old nephew while he was in her care.
Truck driver was drunk – police One more person has succumbed as a result of Saturday’s grisly Mahaica crash, taking the death toll to six and the police last night railed against recklessness on the roads revealing that the truck driver had 242 microgrammes of alcohol above the legal limit.
Four armed, masked bandits staged a brazen attack on Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony around 3:30 pm yesterday demanding that she hand over her digital camera/camcorder.
-family believes he was thrown overboard by mutineersBy Shabna Ullah and Sara BharratThe battered, decomposed body of the captain of a fishing vessel, Savie II, was found at the Bush Lot, West Berbice foreshore around 9:45 am yesterday after he disappeared on Friday during a fracas at sea.
– youth leader hopes skills training will help Residents of Moraikobe, Mahaicony Creek are concerned about the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and substance abuse in the area especially among school drop-outs who are not engaged in meaningful activities.
– under UNICEF-funded project UNICEF handed over equipment for play parks to the Saint Francis Community Developers (SFCD) of Rose Hall, Corentyne and its partners during the launching of eight Children Community Care Point Projects.
Elderly Hindus in Berbice recalled that Diwali – the Festival of Lights around the 1970s was celebrated in a more humble manner with persons going to the “seaside to dig mud to make the earthen lamps [diyas].”
Mark Archibald of Number 42 Village, West Coast Berbice became blind while he was working in the army a few years ago, but he plants and rears chickens to make a living.
The three West Berbice children, whose mother died after her lover reportedly forced poison down her throat, have been placed in new homes and are back at school again.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.
