Shabna Rahman

-NA double murder suspect A suspect who was arrested in connection with the Smyth-field, New Amsterdam double murder said he was treated “worse than Guyana’s most notorious criminal” and as though he was already found guilty of the crime The suspect, Tyrone Talbot, 38, an early-retired sergeant from the US Army maintained his innocence of the crime during an interview with Stabroek News.

President Bharrat Jagdeo lambasted journalists yesterday for not reporting the news accurately and for distorting the facts to make the government look bad, labelling them the “new opposition.”

-post-mortem shows blunt traumaThe funeral of a De Willem man was stopped by police on Tuesday after they received information that he might have been murdered and a post-mortem examination later showed that he died from blunt trauma.

Captain clung to rope for more than a dayA 17-year-old boy is missing and feared dead following a mishap with a 30-ft fishing boat around 9 am on Saturday while the captain survived by clinging onto a rope on the boat for 27 hours.

Residents of Glasgow, East Berbice are fearful that soon “the sea would wash away into the village” and force them to abandon their land and in response, the Region Six administration says that it would make a recommendation for the critical sea defence work to continue.

-US-based Guyanese held Two women were brutally stabbed to death early yesterday morning at Smythfield, New Amsterdam and an overseas-based suspect was arrested at a house in the area.

A 26-year-old Grove man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre yesterday after he was allegedly stabbed by another tenant of a two-story house.

Almost two months after the banks of the Mahaica Creek were flooded resulting in heavy losses of crops and livestock, residents have finally started to see dry ground but are only able to do limited farming because of the soggy earth.

– in recent blaze that killed four Faulty fire hydrants in New Amsterdam are said to be the reason for the fire service not accessing enough water to put out the blaze at Charlotte Street last Saturday in which four persons perished.

Floodwaters in the Mahaica Creek rose again by two inches yesterday following heavy rainfall after having receded by about a foot last week, which had led residents to believe that their misery would soon end.

Even as there is excitement that the Berbice River Bridge has finally become a reality businesspersons especially in the vicinity of the stellings have complained about a drop in sales and a few workers have already been retrenched.

– PNCR-1G councillors miffed This year, Mashramani celebrations would be held at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground in Region Five for the first time in about 20 years but PNCR-1G councillors are displeased with the way that venue was chosen.

Two adults and two children as well as five dogs perished around 1.40 am yesterday in a blaze which swept through their heavily grilled Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam home, despite frantic efforts to save them.

The Ministry of Human Services & Social Security removed 10-year-old Anita Pooranmal and her three younger siblings whom she had to care for from their Pine Ground, Mahaicony Creek home yesterday.

Residents disappointed that creek not dredged Residents of the Abary Creek are disappointed that although President Bharrat Jagdeo had given instructions for the mouth of the creek to be dredged the work has still not been done and the water has remained stagnant.

Ten-year-old girls should be going to school and enjoying their childhood.

-flooded Mahaicony residents ask Even as hopes rise with the drop of the water level in the Mahaicony Creek, residents say there is nothing else for them to do to earn a living as they have lost their crops.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah With their crops already washed away and no means of earning a living, residents of the Mahaica Creek have nothing to do but sit and watch helplessly as the floodwater surrounding them continues to rise.

-admits killing some in June A livestock farmer of Lovely Lass Village, West Berbice who is disgusted that dogs from the nearby Bush Lot village continue to kill his sheep, wants the mutts to be gotten rid of.

Residents of the Abary, Mahaicony and Mahaica creeks were told yesterday that a canal would be dug to drain the excessive rainfall water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Atlantic Ocean at a cost of $3B.