Shabna Rahman

Tensions were rising in the community of Wales, West Bank Demerara yesterday as information about the sugar estate there being closed at the end of this year began to circulate.

This week on What the People Say, we asked residents to comment on the upcoming Local Government Elections.

Life for 44-year-old Sandra Sookdass has been tough but her wish for the New Year is to finally find happiness and to own a home so she can be together with her children.

Story and photos by Shabna Rahman   Rakesh Singh sat under a shed looking at the fishing boats moored in the river near the koker.

In the village of Versailles on the West Bank Demerara, Martley Mc Rae and his employees were hard at work in his block-making factory.

The festival of Diwali is over but Hindus are still talking about the controversy over the date.

There was a lot of activity in the village of Britannia, West Coast Berbice on Saturday afternoon, with some rice farmers returning home on their tractors and other persons tending to their livestock.

Members of the Berbice Anti-Piracy Committee (BAPC) yesterday apprehended four pirates, said to be fishermen from No 43 Village, Corentyne after firing shots at them and turned them over to the Suriname authorities.

 This week on What the People Say, we asked persons to comment on the $35,000 minimum wage recently set by the government.

A dream for providing a better facility for cremating the dead became a reality yesterday with the grand opening of the Blairmont Crematorium & Memorial Garden (BCMG).

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah As we celebrate 47 years since Guyana gained independence, we asked members of the public to share their views on the occasion.

The small, normally quiet village of Yeovil, West Coast Berbice, was recently alive with activity when two groups of 40 high school students came from Connecticut, USA to help build a multi-purpose centre.

In light of the recent incident where a man collapsed and died following an argument with the conductor when he asked for the music to be turned down, we asked members of the public to share their views on loud music in minibuses.

Bengal Village, Corentyne has started to attract notice because of Bengal Aromatic Rice which has hit the market locally and will soon reach Trinidad.

At No 10 Village, West Coast Berbice, the atmosphere was peaceful, save for the sound of vehicles slowing to access the bypass that was built to facilitate the construction of a concrete bridge.

Omesh ‘Radesh’ Thakurdin of No 72 Village, Corentyne, a suspect in the murder of US Army doctor, Captain Max Kungel, 42, was discovered hanging in the lock-ups at the No 51 Police Station around 5:20 am yesterday.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice is located five miles from New Amsterdam but the time and effort to manoeuvre around huge potholes to get there makes the distance seem much longer.

Ithaca, described as “nice and quiet” by residents, is a predominantly African-Guyanese village located at the end of the West Bank of Berbice and is bounded by Blairmont settlement to the left.

As construction of the $7M fence for the Humanitarian Mission Village gets underway at Ankerville, Port Mourant, Corentyne, vulnerable persons can now be assured that help is on the way.

A death sentence was yesterday handed down to 21-year-old Nazrudeen ‘Buddy’ Jhoot of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice who was facing trial at the Berbice High Court for murdering Khemlall Mangal, 43.