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With about only 30 houses in total, Number Seven Village could very easily not be noticed, although Berbicians traverse what is well known as the Number 19 Public Road umpteen times per day.

As the city of Georgetown recovers from the effects of Friday’s flash floods, citizens are being warned to prepare for more flooding.

Metered parking in Georgetown is one step closer to being legally defined as the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has signalled its intention to officially apply to the Minister of Communities for confirmation of the Georgetown Metered Parking bylaws, which were approved at its last statutory meeting.

For five girls of Berbice, Christmas isn’t about the presents or traditions, to them it’s about family, more so their mother.

Three months after being rescued by the Guyana Women Miners Organization (GWMO), a nine-year-old trafficking in persons victim has been forced into protective care by the Ministry of Social Protection and has not been reunited with her family as was promised.

South Georgetown may very well be experiencing a wet Christmas as floodwaters, which had receded in central and north Georgetown lingered up to late yesterday afternoon.

Every day, 19-year-old Shemeka Campbell gets up at around 4 am, prepares her younger siblings for school and heads out to the family shop where she remains until after dark, catching a dollar to help the family survive.

After an entire day of flooding, residents of East Berbice were yesterday tasked with cleaning up as the water in most areas had receded.

While many are having a cheerful Christmas, some residents of the Wales, West Bank Demerara community are worrying about their future.

Today when 37-year-old Sonia George opens her eyes, unlike many, her heart would not be merry it would be heavy and she would be crying.

Sixty-two eager volunteers turned out on Thursday to spend time with the elderly at various nursing homes, in efforts to spread holiday cheer.

(Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday he intends to dissolve his charitable foundation, the Donald J Trump Foundation, which has been under investigation by the New York attorney general.

Apart from the lone person who has been charged, the police are hoping to make a major breakthrough in the Corentyne cambio dealer robbery during which over $20 million in cash and jewellery were carted off.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that Christmas had been “taken hostage” by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the migrants and the war weary.

Christmas is a merry time for many but for one man, in his own words, it is “the happiest time in my life” and he continues, “no one in this world likes Christmas more than me.”

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A winter storm was taking aim yesterday at the US West and Midwest where it was expected to dump heavy snow and freezing rain, causing headaches for millions of holiday travellers who were hitting the road over the weekend, forecasters said.

The children of the Hope Children’s Home in Enmore received an early visit from Santa last Sunday, when they were treated with party bags and ice cream.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Political rivals in Democratic Republic of Congo neared a deal yesterday for President Joseph Kabila to leave power in 2017 after dozens of people were killed during protests this week at the end of his mandate.

Armed robberies committed on persons exiting city banks with large sums of money have been ongoing for a number of years, with four such cases recorded recently and it would appear that these crimes are carried out by gangs who are supplied with information.

No Comments99 views ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – CARICOM chairman, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, urged regional leaders to be less confrontational than they have been previously in addressing the parlous state of West Indies cricket.