Roger Wong

This week we asked the man and woman in the street whether they were in agreement with the 2 am closure of night clubs or whether they were in support of an extension of the time.

Endowed with creativity, Ruth Shuman, an Arawak woman of St Cuthbert’s Mission can skillfully design and create a glamorous Indigenous outfit with matching footwear, shoulder bags, along with other accessories, while her gifted hands could also skillfully craft unique ornaments, all from palm branches.

They might be someone’s sister or brother or even parents. Some are professionals, others can be found on the streets begging.

Story and photos by Roger Wong Hidden behind thick forest, about eleven miles off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway St Cuthbert’s Mission sits amid a vast display of flora and fauna and is home to more than 1,200 Indigenous Guyanese.

One year after its construction a $5 million dollar eco-lodge at St Cuthbert’s Mission houses termites and bugs and weeds are taking over the structure.

Roberto O’ Selmo, 17, St Cuthbert’s Mission’s top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) student, is now considering leaving the village to better qualify himself to pursue a career in civil engineering.

  Although plantain and banana farms across Guyana have been perishing under the onslaught of the Black Sigatoka Disease, resulting in a complete halt in the export of plantains, farmers are now becoming hopeful again as the disease can be controlled with very little or no effect on the quality of production.

Residents of St Cuthbert’s Mission were asked about whether there are jobs available to villagers in the community and what recommendations they wanted to make as regards the creation of jobs.

Amid growing pressure on the government to find new markets and to ensure reasonable prices to growers, scores of rice farmers from across Guyana yesterday sounded a call for promises made by APNU+AFC to them to be fulfilled.

Dozens of volunteers were yesterday part of a clean-up campaign that cleared drains along Regent Street of a build-up of sand and garbage which was thwarting the free flow of water.

Although William Goodasaul was “officially” discharged last November, he remains bedridden at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and desperately wants to leave.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that upgrading the police force is not a short-term project and dirty cops need to be weeded out.

A West Berbice vendor is in critical condition after she and her husband were chopped by bandits during a home invasion yesterday that also saw their daughters being terrorised and robbed.

A gate and fence at the IMEX International complex on Leopold Street are to be demolished today, according to the City Council, but the owner of the building is contending that the demolition will be illegal because he is in possession of documents which granted permission for the construction.

An elderly woman was beaten to death at Montrose, East Coast Demerara, in an attack that was recorded by surveillance cameras, which police are hoping will lead them to the killer.

The homes of many persons remained inundated with stagnant floodwater yesterday along the East Coast of Demerara, especially at Buxton, where livestock farmers appealed for relief to save their animals and long-term solutions to their increasingly familiar plight.

Floodwater was still receding from the city last evening after a heavy overnight downpour that left some areas like flood-prone Albouystown swamped and some storeowners bailing water from their businesses.

With the end of the school year on Friday, the children of St Lawrence and the other villages following it, along the East Bank of the Essequibo River, will have a two-month respite from traversing the deplorable main access road.

A woman was shot in her leg yesterday when she tried to fight off a robber, who attacked her onboard a minibus during a stop at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

To 78-year-old Yvonne Trim, age is just a number. A resident of Roden Rust, East Bank Essequibo, Trim is about to complete her first year of studies in mechanics, but for her this is just to give her the papers to match her skills as she is already a whiz at vehicle repairs.