Oluatoyin Alleyne

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Women, step up and adjust your sisters’ crowns!

Last Friday, women around the world observed International Women’s Day. Some of us were actually involved in activities that recognised this day, others knew of the day but did not observe it in form while many women do not even know such a day exists.

Notes of thankfulness and a call to be kind

This week, maybe because of nostalgia or just being thankful in the midst of this life that can be a cesspool at times, I wanted to share three experiences that just demonstrate that there are kind people out there and it is not all bad.

Parenting is difficult

“I really did think like when they get big you know things would get easier because you know I wouldn’t have to do things for them like before and you know we would just live and support one another.

Abigail and her husband Michael

First Christmas married

By Abigail Headley It is a widely-held belief, in Guyana and possibly the Caribbean, that men dislike Christmas because they are often burdened with the responsibility of cleaning and spending money.

Women taxi drivers who hold their own

“I was in a job that was slowly draining me. I couldn’t believe I was there for so long as I had given myself just about two years but yet eight years later, I was still there and it was not doing good for me.

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