Lakhram Bhagirat

Burglars carted away millions from a Stabroek Market jewellery store and officials believe that other market stallholders may be involved.

New complaints have surfaced about conditions at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) and staffers are warning that the situation has affected patient care, including emergency services.

Enmore Estate sugar workers yesterday refused to heed a call for a strike by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), which they accused of failing to adequately represent their interests.

Yasin Hasim and family, expecting to welcome the newest member next month, are now without a home after fire gutted their house at Felicity, on the East Coast Demerara around noon yesterday.

Outrageous is the name Classique Dance Company gave to its collaboration with the Keen Dance Theater, which was held at the National Cultural Centre last Saturday, but the show only managed to outrage the Classique fans audience, who had been expecting much more.

A fire suspected to be of electrical origin gutted the home and wholesale grocery store of businessman Shazim Hamid yesterday at Diamond Housing Scheme, rendering him homeless and causing him to suffer millions of dollars in losses.

By John Richards and Lakhram Bhagirat with photos by Anjuli Persaud and John Richards This week we asked the residents of Moraikobe village, Mahaicony Creek  to tell us what life is like in Moraikobe as well as what are some of the difficulties they face and how they think life in their village can be improved.

A woman and her five children lost their La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning after her husband, from whom she is separated, set it on fire.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud Staffers of government agencies that face budget cuts proposed by APNU and AFC yesterday took to the streets to protest the move, while the state-run National Communications Network (NCN) warned that it would have to scale back its operations to save on costs.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud Hundreds of public servants took to the streets yesterday to protest budget cuts proposed by the AFC, after being told by government that it would result in many of them losing their jobs.

A fuse box explosion is suspected to be the cause of the La Parfaite Harmonie fire that claimed the lives of two children

A 28-year-old wash bay operator last evening succumbed to his injuries after slamming into a median in the vicinity of Rahaman’s Park, Houston, East Bank Demerara.

The residents of Bartica in Region Seven are against the dissolution of their Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cil (NDC) and are calling for the long-awaited Local Government Elections to be speeded up.

Photos by  Anjuli Persaud The residents of Waiakabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway are calling on the relevant authorities to regularize the former squatting area so that they can access the basic necessities for survival, which are potable water, electricity and a proper road.

A father of two died on the spot yesterday after a speeding lorry crashed into the Canter truck he was driving on the Bee Hive Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Shakti Strings rocked and JMC3 Veni brought it, but it was the Karma band that seemingly emerged the ‘titan’ when the much anticipated ‘Clash of the Titans 2’ was held on Saturday last at the National Stadium.

As they do every year overseas-based Guyanese artiste John ‘Slingshot’ Drepaul and his wife Ingrid were back in Guyana last month for Mashramani with a new song and a Mash band.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud With more rainfall expected, residents of the Mahaicony Creek are anticipating being deliberately flooded for a second for the year to relieve the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) and they are awaiting word from government on plans to assist them.

A few weeks after he copped the second runner-up position in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GT&T) first ever Bollywood segment of the Jingle and Song Competition, 23-year-old Joel Pharous dropped four hot tracks on the local market and is expected to release an album by May.

Story and photos by Lakhram Bhagirat With floodwater receding in Mahaicony Creek communities, the full extent of losses are now being realised and farmers are demanding full compensation for damaged crops and dead livestock.