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A game of tag with dogs through floodwaters.
A game of tag with dogs through floodwaters.

City flooded again

By Jeanna Pearson  Photos by Arian Browne   Georgetown was covered in floodwaters yesterday in a now regular pattern that follows heavy rains with residents once again riled up about the pile-up of garbage in drains and canals.

Little Miracle Angel Price sleeps soundly in her mother’s arms as she awaits medical attention at the Georgetown Hospital. The four month old baby girl had earlier been rescued after being kidnapped by a teenaged girl.

Kidnapped baby Miracle reunited with mother

A four-month-old baby girl was on Monday kidnapped from a Buxton, East Coast Demerara daycare centre by a teenager who pretended to be an aunt and following police investigations, the suspect was arrested and the infant reunited with her mother last evening.

Rupert Roopnaraine

Lack of movement on Linden committees disappointing

APNU MP Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says he finds it “extremely disappointing” that 16 months after a deal was signed between the government and Region 10 following five weeks of unrest on electricity tariffs, none of the three committees established has  yielded any results.

TravelSpan to hire local flight attendants

TravelSpan and Vision Airlines are inviting applications from university graduates to fill the positions of flight attendants to staff an additional aircraft that will be put into service on February 15.

Terry Holder

Terry Holder’s funeral today

The funeral for Terry Holder will take place today. According to the death announcement in yesterday’s Stabroek News, the viewing of the body will be held at the Merriman Funeral Home at Lime and Bent streets  between midday and 1 pm.

Girl found murdered at Kuru Kururu

The body of a 16-year-old Kuru Kururu girl was this morning found in a creek behind her home and it is believed that she was murdered by a man she shared a relationship with.

NDCs accounts in total disarray – Goolsarran

Accounts of Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) are in total disarray as 80% of them have not been audited for the last five years and columnist Anand Goolsarran has pilloried the audit office over the delinquency.

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