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Dr Bheri Ramsaran

Ramsaran firing elections gimmick – Nageer

Buckling under pressure, President Donald Ramotar yesterday fired Dr Bheri Ramsaran as Minister of Health more than a week after a recording emerged of him verbally abusing activist Sherlina Nageer who yesterday labelled the sacking an “elections time gimmick”.

Sherlina Nageer pauses before signing a copy of one of the children’s books she has written.

For activist Sherlina Nageer, silence is not an option

The issues that push activist Sherlina Nageer into action can vary from a boy’s genitals burnt by the police, protestors shot and killed, a woman dying after an illegal abortion, a child being raped or just a woman suffering a mental health breakdown.

Sherlina Nageer (second from left) at the protest yesterday outside the Ministry of Health over remarks made against her on Monday by Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran.

Outrage rises over Ramsaran abuse

Scores of persons yesterday expressed their outrage at Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran’s abuse of activist Sherlina Nageer and called for his resignation even as the PPP/C’s prime ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper described his remarks as “unacceptable and an affront to women”.

The crowd at the PPP rally at the Kitty Market Square yesterday being addressed by Africo Selman. (Arian Browne photo)

Ramotar pledges modern economy…after ‘trying years’

By Oluatoyin Alleyne Photos by Arian Browne Describing his years in office as “very trying”, President Donald Ramotar last evening promised to focus on education, the sugar and rice industries, the housing sector and to improve security should the PPP/C be returned to power come May 11th.

Rev Ken Steigler

Rev Ken recalls Selma activism

As a ten-year-old growing up in a segregated United States of America, Rev Ken Steigler remembered being taught to treat everyone with respect and it was there that the seed of equality and justice for all was planted, which later saw him actively participating in the struggle led by the late civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.

Alejandra Romero and taxi driver Wazeed Manjoor at yesterday’s opening.

Qualfon opens US$4M Providence campus

Eleven years ago, a young woman journeyed from Mexico to Guyana to determine the feasibility of opening an office for the business process outsourcing company with which she worked.

No change in status quo at NOC

Even after repeated recommendations were made for the Ministry of Youth to launch an investigation into the operations of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) the status quo remains and young girls and boys continue to suffer in an institution that is supposed to rehabilitate   them, APNU member Christopher Jones has said.

       Ceara Roopchand

CADVA event channels unity, transformation

For most of her childhood she watched her mother being battered by her stepfather in alcohol-fuelled episodes which saw frequent visits by the police to her home and made her childhood a never-ending cycle of violence.

David Granger

Coalition offers best chance for national unity gov’t – Granger

The Cummingsburg Accord which saw APNU and the AFC coalescing offers the best chance for a national unity government, presidential candidate of the grouping David Granger said in an interview with Sunday Stabroek during which he restated that his party has nothing to apologise for over the 1968 to 1985 elections it was accused of rigging.

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