Severe poverty remains even if not UN’s ‘extreme’ poverty

Dr Clive Thomas

A woman will work hard in the house of someone else as a domestic but many times she cannot rest when her day is over; instead she has to hurry home to strip brooms to sell, or prepare for her night job as a security guard, or in some cases, sell fish.

This is what was recently discovered by Red Thread in a survey of 151 domestic workers, all of whom, whether full time or part time, were forced to find additional sources of income as they were unable to make ends meet on what they earned toiling in someone’s else house.

“The situation in Guyana for poor people is really ridiculous; poor people cannot come out of the