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Residents said the Koker attendant failed to close the Koker door and that was what caused the flooding.
Now Riverview and Alexander Village residents are counting their losses after they were inundated with water just after 1:00 this morning. The situation was so bad that some residents were forced to put their furniture and other electrical appliances on higher ground, but some were not so fortunate and are now left to ponder over who will pay for the Koker attendant’s negligence.

City Mayor, Patricia Chase Green, Town Clerk, Royston King and engineers from the M&CC were there for a first-hand look at the plight of the residents. Green said the situation was unfortunate and a thorough investigation will be launched into the incident.
Some residents of the two communities are now asking who will compensate them for the damages.
Some of the affected residents are also looking for assistance to get the water out of their homes.

Calls by church members to the elderly women who lived at 243 Albert Street and South road went unanswered and upon further checks, by investigators, the two women were found bound and gagged. Dead are Phyllis Ceasar, 73 and Constance Fraser 87.
Phyllis works as a caretaker of the Full Gospel Assembly church, which is located just next-door. A Church member made the gruesome discovery and he immediately alerted the police. He told reporters that he found the place ransacked. Police are working on the theory that the women were robbed.

As word got around, church members and other residents converged on the scene in disbelief and shocked that the two women were killed.
Both women were described as very committed to their faith and devoted members of the church.
Church members who congregated outside the house began to sing and worship as the bodies were removed by the Lyken Funeral Home.
Police investigators are checking every possible clue, to get to the bottom of the story and arrest whoever is responsible for the horrible act.

19 year old, Shawn Dos Santos and 18-year old Stephon Howard this morning appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and were charged with the murder of Albion businessman, Fazal Shaheed. Shaheed was shot and killed when gunmen invaded his parents East La Penitence home, two weeks ago. His brothers Talin and Shalim Shaheed also suffered gunshot wounds during the home invasion/robbery.

The men appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan where the indictable charge was read to them. Both men were remanded to prison until October, 19^th.

The family was preparing for a one-year religious function for their father, when masked gunmen armed with handguns pounced on them.

The Police say the bandits took cash and jewellery during the ordeal.

The Police moved in quickly and immediately cracked the case after they arrested two men from the community. After conducting further investigations the two men were charged with the capitol offence.

The police are probing the murder of an Industry East coast Demerara man which occurred just after 10 this morning. Dead is Alan Bagwandeen. There are reports that the dead man had an altercation with his neighbor who allegedly hit him to the head with a piece of wood. Neighbors said the two men were drinking buddies and would usually consume alcohol heavily and regularly. The suspect’s sister told reporters that she heard a commotion and it was afterwards that she learnt of her neighbor’s death.

Abigail Archibald says she plans to be more protective of her other children now that she is faced with the dreadful demise of her 13-year-old son, Leonard Archibald.
Holding back tears she said this brutal experience has now caused her to implore to her other children to be more careful among males.

She said from the time her son went missing, it was a struggle for her to sleep at night and to eat a solid meal.
Meanwhile, the government continues to lend support to family members of the murdered 13-year-old boy and further reassurance was given by Junior Natural Resources Minister, Simona Broomes. Broomes who represented Social Protection Minister Amna Ally visited the family.
It was the Social protection Ministry that stood the lad’s funeral expenses and currently, two of her children are benefiting from a programme run by the Social Protection Ministry.

On Wednesday, 29 yr. old Hillary Edwards and 19 yr. old Omardai Christopher were charged with murder when they appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore In the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court and were remanded to prison until December 8th.
The lad’s partly decomposed remains were discovered last Saturday, 6 days after he went missing. The Post Mortem examination done on Monday was inconclusive due to the badly decomposed state of the body.
The police cracked the case after they arrested two villagers who later confessed to sodomizing the lad, then dumping his body in the Berbice River.

Grief filled the air at the Georgetown Public Hospital as teachers and relatives of 6-year-old, Glenshon Skeete were greeted with the news of his death.
The lad just moments before his demise was with a group of children at the Plaisance Community center ground practicing for tomorrow’s school sports when a football goal post fell on him.

His mother who is expecting her 9th child was inconsolable as she struggled to come to terms with her son’s death.
Education officials were on hand to lend support to the family, as they too were touched by the tragic event.
At his Parents home at Graham Street Plaisance, his emotional father, Glenroy Skeete said it was just after 11:00 am when he got the news to head down to the hospital, not knowing that his son was already dead.

He shared a moment he had with his son this morning that will live with him for the rest of his life.

At the Community Centre Ground, education officials were on sight doing their own investigation. The goal post was never properly placed in the ground and the persons around the area said it was a tragedy waiting to happen.
The caretaker at the facility said he asked the teacher to keep the children away from that area. He said he was inside when he heard the commotion outside.
Residents and family members converged at the Plaisance home to offer condolences to the grieving family.

The two men who Sodomized and murdered 13-year-old Leonard Archibald appeared in the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ court this morning to answer to the indictable charge.
The men, 29 yr. old Hillary Edwards and 19 yr. old Omardai Christopher appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore and were remanded to prison until December 8th.
Inside the courtroom, the men stood expressionless as the charges were read to them. Both men confessed to the gruesome act to police investigators over the weekend. Outside of the courtroom family members and friends were calling for justice and for the men to be placed behind bars. One of the suspects was professing his innocence of the crime while he was being escorted into the Police vehicle.

Archibald’s body surfaced last Saturday afternoon some 6 days after the boy went missing.

He was found some 3 miles from Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice on a mudflat in the river.

The Post Mortem examination done on Monday was inconclusive due to the badly decomposed state of the body.
The police cracked the case after they arrested two villagers who later confessed to sodomizing the lad, then dumping his body at the back of one of the men’s house at Sister’s Village, East Bank Berbice.
The Police say one of the suspects reported that the boy became unconscious during the painful ordeal and it was at this point the suspects decided to dump his body. Archibald was laid to rest on Tuesday.