Vendors within the New Amsterdam Market are at their wits end with the conditions they are facing as a result of increased fees by the New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council, harsh and rude treatment meted out to them by staffers and roadside vending by others.
The Ministry of Health yesterday opened a new health centre in the community of Chesney, Corentyne to the tune of over $39m.
-factory workers on strike over production manager GuySuCo this week fired a production manager and head lab technician attached to the Rose Hall Estate after claims of sugar going missing sometime last crop.
– Sheriff Hospital on track for December Residents within the community of Palmyra, Corentyne are very excited about the major construction projects underway such as for a shopping mall, hospital, new housing scheme and stadium.
Over a year after the brutal murders of Melissa Arokium and her eight-year-old son, Anthony Arokium, a security guard of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Quincy Hooper was yesterday charged and remanded.
-police were probing domestic violence complaint A Mahaicony man died on Monday after he allegedly set a house on fire following a domestic dispute with his wife during which she was reportedly assaulted.
-also runs community centres While the Ordnance/Fort Lands Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) continues to push its street and drainage programme, it is also heavily focused on continuing to build community relations with its counselling centre.
Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday commissioned the brand new $466 million pump station at Adventure, Corentyne, which it is estimated will assist with the drainage of 6,000 acres of land.
In the interest of lowering stone prices, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo earlier this week told contractors in Region Six that government gave out eight new quarry licences, six of which have come into operation.
Farmers in Johanna, Black Bush Polder yesterday bemoaned the current condition of dams within the area as they pointed out that in a few weeks time their rice will be ready to reap and they might have to resort to using boats, an additional expense they will have to face.
-boyfriend critically injured Two families are now left to pick up the pieces after a devastating crash along the Corentyne Public Road left an 18-year-old dead and her 24-year-old boyfriend critically injured.
After finding unexpected success with growing grapes locally, farmer Devon Gilead has met unexpected devastation with his losses amounting to over $10m due to drought and destruction of vines by cows.
A Surinamese woman was late Monday afternoon found dead in a Region Five hotel room and a post-mortem yesterday ruled she had died from ingestion of gasoline.
How should oil revenues be spent? The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) believes that the revenue earned from Guyana’s oil resources should be extended to the development of more farm to market roads.
The sons of Berbice journalists Malisa Playter Harry and Nafeeza Yayah Sakur came out as top performers at their respective schools on the Corentyne at the National Grade Six Examinations leaving their families proud.
Cumberland Primary School pupils took five of the top ten spots for Region Six in this year’s National Grade Six Assessment.
-say buildings could have been saved Bush Lot business owners who are reeling from a massive blaze on Monday which left one man dead and completely destroyed three buildings housing a total of six businesses, believe that had the GFS had better equipment the fire would have been quickly contained and their businesses saved.
– contract was signed in September 2021 The Adventure pump station, construction of which began in late 2022 has finally come into operation with the expectation of providing faster drainage to a section of Black Bush Polder, Region Six, including the Cookrite Savannah which is often easily flooded.
The Government of Guyana is gearing up to construct a new nursing school in New Amsterdam along the main road where the old New Amsterdam hospital was once located.
– garbage dumping by business community a major problem Collaboration among the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the Region Six council (RDC) and the New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council has resulted in the township not experiencing any major flooding this rainy season – a first in decades.
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