by Cofona Admin | Sep 23, 2010 | General
By Stabroek staff | September 23, 2010 After Ivor Gomes’ body was exhumed on Monday it was discovered that he suffered blunt trauma to the back of the head and also from cirrhosis.Last Wednesday Ivor, 41, was buried by police before he could be identified. His sister,...
by Cofona Admin | Sep 10, 2010 | General
September 10, 2010 Stabroek NewsA combination of abnormally high spring tides and inadequate river defences left residents in several communities in Regions 3, 4 and 6 battling fast rising flood waters up to late last night. The water from the Demerara river rushing...
by Cofona Admin | Sep 8, 2010 | General
September 8, 2010 | By Kaieteur News…odour caused neighbours to feel unwellPolice found the badly decomposed body of 70-year-old Elsie Nieuenkirk in her house at 52 Winkle, New Amsterdam, Berbice, yesterday.The police who were called to the scene by neighbours who...
by Cofona Admin | Sep 7, 2010 | General
September 6, 2010 by Kaieteur NewsQUEENSTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Members of the Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) of the Berbice High School is appealing for help in completing an audio/visual centre. President of the Clarence Hernandes lamented that the venture commenced...
by Cofona Admin | Sep 4, 2010 | General
By Stabroek staff | September 4, 2010 The man charged with causing the death of 18-year-old Malika Patterson by dangerous driving was released on $450,000 bail on Thursday when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo.Charles...
by Cofona Admin | Aug 29, 2010 | General
By Stabroek staff | August 29, 2010 An infant and an octogenarian died in separate drowning incidents in Berbice on Friday.One-year-old Clifford Campbell of Rotterdam, East Bank Berbice, was found floating in the Berbice River around 6.30 pm on Friday.Reports say that...