THURSDAY 21st May, 2020
No. 106006
‘We need more time’
–– GTU says July too soon for CSEC, CAPE exams
–– students want CXC to 03 reconsider PAGE
Freak storm rips off roofs in Corentyne
‘Worry over 16 NGSA’ –– parents, teachers PAGE
express concern over pupils’ preparedness for NGSA
71 ballot boxes processed on Day 15 12 PAGE
… POs in OLE mix up called in to explain Heavy winds damaged several homes at #36 Village, East Berbice, Corentyne, early Wednesday morning. The storm erupted around 08:00hrs. Residents, speaking with this newspaper, recalled a sudden heavy wind followed by a heavy downpour. “Me see a whole set paper and dust a circle then next thing it start fuh come to we house and rain start fall, next thing me see all them zinc sheets fly out and fold up like paper. Me start fuh pray and me hide a bottom house till it pass,” one resident related. Dianne Razack, a 31-year-old mother of two, said she was relaxing in the bottom flat of her home when she heard her sons screaming that papers were flying in the air. She said that when she got up to investigate she felt a heavy wind. “I just grabbed my two boys and run In front of the house until it passed”. The entire roof of Mrs. Razack’s house was completely damaged, as well as her home appliances as a result of the rain.
Gov’t seeks data to provide COVID-19 17 public assistance PAGE