Oluatoyin Alleyne

Three years ago Minette (not her real name) was among four teenagers who were rescued from the Oko Backdam, Region 7, where they were being trafficked by Candacy Anderson and her husband.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall plans to appeal a recent ruling by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang that concluded that the paper committals process under the Sexual Offences Act is inconsistent with the constitution because it does not allow accused persons to cross-examine witnesses at the preliminary inquiry stage.

With the aim of creating more opportunities for its members the Guyana Women Miners Organisation helped arrange for a small group to travel to the US to be part of the annual 18th Americas Food & Beverage Show and conference.

Hours after President Donald Ramotar issued the proclamation to prorogue the Parliament, the opposition parties declared that democracy was under threat and warned of the country sliding into a state of dictatorship.

  The future of the National Public Health Institute, widely known as the “reference lab,” is uncertain with the imminent end of funding from the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to Director Dr Nadira Ramcharran.

Thirty-two-year-old Tiffany Jackson is a fighter, and has used the most traumatic experience of her life as a catalyst to assist in her work of helping victims of domestic violence.

Just over a week after she was brutally raped by a man known to her, a 21-year-old mother of one is hoping that the police would conduct a speedy and thorough investigation and place the perpetrator before the courts.

At the ripe old age of 90, Blanche Duke is more alert than many much younger and as a former teacher, ever concerned about the present generation, but says the burden is on teachers to take their responsibility of moulding young minds seriously.

It was early on a Saturday morning that a 25-year-old woman ran screaming into a mining concession chased by a man who was beating her with a belt.

Universal secondary education is expected to be a reality in Guyana in another three years according to Chief Education Officer (CEdO) Olato Sam, who however admitted that the Ministry of Education would at no time be able to say that every child was enrolled in a secondary school owing to what he described as the country’s “geographical reality.”

Eve Ensler is a woman driven by the pain she sees her sisters across the globe suffer and while she will not be able to purge the world of violence against women and children in her lifetime her work is nevertheless making an impact, including through raising funds to assist those in need.

The police have said they have launched no investigation into a rape allegation by a young Amerindian woman who says that she was drugged and raped recently in Mahdia but instead are investigating assault causing actually bodily harm.

The staff at the New Opportunity Corp (NOC) are believed to have colluded to stonewall the police investigation into sexual and physical abuse claims by former residents of the institution.

The staff at the New Opportunity Corp (NOC) are believed to have colluded to stonewall the police investigation into sexual and physical abuse claims by former residents of the institution.

Every morning she wakes at 4am and starts her day, her morning centred on sending her three children to school.

Sabanto Tokoroho was a small girl scared out of her wits when she moved from Kabakaburi in Pomeroon to attend school in Georgetown, and the constant teasing and sometimes cruel taunts from her schoolmates about her Amerindian heritage did not help.

Preliminary reports have indicated that Evita Singh, the mother who recently died days after she delivered a stillborn baby by caesarian-section at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), succumbed as a result of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), a rare, life-threatening condition that prevents blood from clotting normally.

A motorcycle race involving two young men ended tragically on Saturday night when one died and the other was seriously injured after they collided with a parked car at Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

The care of a seven-month-old baby is now at the centre of a dispute between a young mother and the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA), which she is accusing of seeking to take the child away from her.

Although Roger John has been disabled for the past 27 years he still has dreams of using his feet again as he prepares to enter a new phase of life and hopefully achieve the financial security that he craves.