Sara Bharrat

“If your feet aren’t happy, you’re not happy!” Crystal Lewis declared at the formal opening of the Shoe Source store located at Regent Road, Bourda.

Three men are in police custody over the murder of political activist Fiesal Ferose Ali, relatives said yesterday.

Women and abusive relationships This week we asked the man/woman in the street why they thought women stayed in abusive relationships and what more could be done to help them.

– suspect kerosene was mixed with gasolineThe alleged unsafe practice of a fuel dealer may have been the reason a kerosene lamp exploded on Saturday night causing a mother and her teenage daughter to sustain severe burns.

-fire service criticised for response time Four people were left homeless when a fire ravaged most of their Martyr’s Ville, Mon Repos home, yesterday morning.

Seven men, believed to be part of a gang responsible for a rash of recent high-profile armed robberies, were yesterday charged with last week’s $17.2M GuySuCo payroll heist and a string of robberies.

For almost a decade, residents of Alexander Village have had their Deepavali celebrations disrupted by revellers who have been waging firecracker attacks on their Mandir.

Alleged victim, girlfriend, taxi driver still in custody An alleged robbery victim, his girlfriend and the taxi driver who delivered a fatally wounded gunman to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday night are still in police custody in relation to a robbery committed in Meadow Brook Gardens that night.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ruled the notes from the diary of Detective Corporal Suraj Singh inadmissible to evidence in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the advocating a terrorist act charge against Oliver Hinckson.

Ex-army officer Oliver Hinckson was yesterday finally given his pre-trial liberty and walked out of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after he was granted bail on the charge of advocating a terrorist act.

‘…lightning start to flash. It strike de steel on the building and de thing spark up’It was one freaky Friday in Diamond Housing Scheme, residents said.

Two workers hurt An unfinished three-storey wooden house located in Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank collapsed yesterday afternoon causing injuries to two construction workers.

An agro-packaging and export facility, which according to the Ministry of Agriculture cost $89 million, was formally opened at Parika yesterday and can pack a whopping 40,000 lbs of produce in a day.

Appeals for peace and forgiveness were made last Thursday night, when hundreds of Guyanese flocked the Lusignan Tarmac for the final of the three-night Pitri Paksh Satsang, offering prayers and remembering the 11 men, women and children who were murdered on January 26, this year.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their role in their children’s schoolwork.

Relatives still uneasy Hundreds of devotees and the relatives of those who were murdered during the Lusignan Massacre gathered last evening at the Lusignan Tarmac for the first of the three-night Pitri Paksh Satsang held in remembrance of the eleven people who were killed.

The last redoubt America has been changing fast demographically of late — nearly a third of Americans are under the age of 20, and nearly a third are now either black or Hispanic — but you wouldn’t have known it from the mainly old and overwhelmingly white crowd gathered in the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday evening to cheer on Republican nominee John McCain, at 72 the oldest candidate ever to run for US president.

Three pre-teen girls perished in a fire of an unknown origin, which destroyed the female dormitory of the Waramadong Secondary School in Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) on Sunday night.

Bhajan Deepanjali a hit with spectators Devotees and spectators thronged the Providence stadium on Wednesday to enjoy what was described as “an evening of Hindu culture” at Bhajan Deepanjali.

Friends to the very end; Satyanand Singh, called Sachin, and Wajeed Shaw died together early yesterday morning when the car they were in smashed into a concrete culvert at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.