Oluatoyin Alleyne

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Opposition blocks customs tax amendments

The government yesterday failed to win opposition support for amendments to the Customs Act, despite its arguments that the failure to legislate the changes would expose the country to litigation and sanctions.

Dannah Jones

Deaf teen rescued in joint operation at Mabura

The Ministry of Human Services & Social Security, the Guyana Police Service, the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) collaborated early last week to remove a deaf and mute teenager from the No 58 Mabura, Region 10 area who is suspected of having been trafficked.

Steve Douglas

Maternity body painting comes to Guyana

Women are now being offered the opportunity to celebrate their pregnancies in a “very artistic style” by having their enlarged tummies painted with a design of their choosing and then having photographs taken which they will have as keepsakes.

Minor surgery became major pain as hospital without ‘loop’ remover

A 65-year-old woman had what she described as a “painful and bloody experience” when what should have been a simple procedure of removing an intrauterine device (IUD) at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) went horribly wrong after the doctor was forced to abandon the procedure because the hospital did not have the instrument needed to remove the device.

David Dabydeen

Dabydeen says Caribbean Press facing human resource crisis

Locally-funded publishing house Caribbean Press is facing a serious human resource crisis as its current editor Professor David Dabydeen plans to take a back seat to focus on his own writing and his quest to find suitable candidates to take up the mantle has hit a brick wall.

The winners of the Buxton literacy programme spelling B competition with at extreme left, founder of the project Robin Phillips and at far right, President of the Rotary Club of Stabroek Luana Falconer.

Supporting a literacy programme for children in Buxton

Three years ago there was little hope that 13-year-old Adunni Blair would have gone on to attend secondary school, but today after participating in the Buxton Youth Developers Literacy Project she is a student of the Annandale Secondary School on the East Coast, and is performing exceptionally well.

Cheryl Allen-Josiah

Cheryl Allen-Josiah: Mason and carpenter

A domestic problem forced Cheryl Allen-Josiah to leave her home many years ago, but looking back today she feels that it not only strengthened the marital bond between herself and husband but it also provided an avenue to follow a career path she had long wanted to follow: carpentry and masonry.

Mahendra Persaud

A modern sugar worker

Thirty-eight-year-old Mahendra Persaud has been working with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for the past 23 years and while it is a job that comes with benefits, he does not wish to have his children work as cane-harvesters.

Seepersaud Mangru

First generation Indian Guyanese

On a Monday morning early 83-year-old Iris Mangru heads over to her fruit orchard, something she has been doing for as long as she can remember even though she knows that there is not much she can do there these days.

Sukdiah Mohabir

First generation Indian Guyanese – Sukdiah Mohabir

Slightly bent over, her glasses perched precariously on her wizened face, Sukdiah Mohabir hurried down a street in the village of Canefield, Canje, Berbice on a sunny morning impatient to match the strides of the younger woman holding her hand.

Leslie Ramsammy

AFC to cut ‘waste and extravagance’ from budget

AFC MP Moses Nagamootoo yesterday laced into the government for overspending and corruption and announced his party’s intention to cut “bad project allocations, waste and extravagance” from the proposed budget that he believes has been tailored to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the parasitic and bureaucratic class.

Ronald Cato

No.50 village grandmother to the rescue of orphans

At 73, all of Maude Whyte’s six children were adults and she enjoyed being a grandmother and not having the day to day responsibilities of taking care of children but then life took an unexpected tragic twist and she found herself being responsible for five children, the youngest being a mere two years.

Plaisance IMC unaware of tower works

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Plaisance is in the dark about the erection of a tower for government’s e-governance project on the community centre ground which was initiated at the direction of the Office of the President (OP).

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