Onika Beckles’ preoccupation with completing a degree in Economics at the University of Guyana (UG) is matched only by her fixation with ensuring the social, material and intellectual welfare of her five-year-old daughter.
Her academic responsibilities place strict limits on her options as far as paid employment is concerned. That is a challenge that she has had to face since she started UG three years ago. Having spent much of her time contemplating the kind of gainful employment that would fit in with her pursuits as a single mother and a university student she is currently pursuing an idea which she believes might just work.
Beckles’ choice of a means through which to secure a steady earning seeks to take advantage of a Guyanese preoccupation with elaborate food preparation. Many of our dishes – curries, stews, souse, pepperpot and a host of others – have made their
