Bartica, Lusignan guns used at East La Penitence
POLICE have reported that ballistics tests verified the identification of two weapons from which twenty-three 7.62 x 39 spent shells recovered at East La Penitence Police Station in Georgetown, after the drive-by shooting Tuesday night, were fired.
The report said the shells match those retrieved after the Lusignan, East Coast Demerara and Bartica, Essequibo River […]
Perfect example
I was very pleased to see in the newspapers that the Lusignan nursery school has its own building now. This to me is a sign of educational development amidst all that is going on in our society.
What was even more touching was to see little Roberto Thomas who survived the Lusignan massacre cutting the ribbon. […]
Lusignan massacre murder case file still with DPP
THE case of 19-year-old James Hyles, nicknamed ‘Sally’, who has been charged with the murders of the 11 Lusignan massacre victims, was postponed, once more, when he made another Court appearance yesterday, at Vigilance, also on the East Coast of Demerara.
Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs set April 11 as the date when the matter will be called […]
Persistent rumours on the real motives behind the Lusignan and Bartica shootouts - Clousseau
Clousseau will appear to be rambling, which in fact is the truth. He finds himself without a topic that offers much scope for expansive delving and thus will be most brief in the effort of bringing readers up to date on some topics that come to mind.
Of some interest in persistent rumours on the […]
Remembering loved ones at Lusignan
THERE were mixed emotions yesterday at the home of the Seecharran family at Track ‘A’ Lusignan, East Coast Demerara when members of the Salvation Army visited the home to counsel and bring other forms of cheer to the bereaved relatives.
Spent warhead brings back the horror of January 26
TRY as the people of Lusignan may to get over the horrors of the bloody massacre of January 26 last, many things keep popping up to remind them.
And so the haunting memory of the attack by marauding gunmen, which claimed the lives of eleven persons and left three more seriously wounded, lives on.
SURVIVOR OF LUSIGNAN MASSACRE - Howard Thomas discharged from hospital
- five-year-old brother still warded
NINETEEN-year-old Howard Thomas, one of the survivors of the infamous January 26 massacre at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he was warded in the High Dependency Unit for just over three weeks.
Guyanese Diaspora vehemently condemns Lusignan massacre
WE, of the Guyanese Diaspora comprising individuals of different racial and religious backgrounds and of varying political persuasion, at a gathering under the auspices of the Canada-Guyana Forum on February 16, 2008, vehemently condemn the senseless massacre of the eleven innocent children, women and men at Lusignan, Guyana.
PNCR boycotts debate on Lusignan massacre
- stages walkout
A DISAGREEMENT between members of the Government benches in Parliament and the main opposition on whether to debate or discuss the recent killings of 11 residents, children included, in the community of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, led to the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leading a walkout.
BRINGING CLOSURE TO A LOST HOPE, SHATTERED DREAMS
Almost three years since sugar workers disappeared
- wives, children look to backlands clearing for answers and possible closure to their never-ending search for missing loved ones
IT has been almost three dark, desolate, distressing years since Maikhram Sawh and Sampersaud Taranauth mysteriously disappeared in the volatile and dangerous East Coast Demerara backlands.
