Oluatoyin Alleyne

“A lot of work coming but sometimes I can’t explain it to she and then I have to work and when I come home in the nights I does be too tired.

Parents can do more to help their children if they are willing to look closely at their own lives, according to Yeaswantie Beekhoo PhD (Seema), a holistic psychologist, who is attached to the Childcare and Protection Agency.

Over five years after she started on the journey to fulfil her dream of becoming a medical doctor, she has triumphed spectacularly by topping her class at the University of Guyana and is now thinking about specialization, which could possibly see her becoming a family doctor.

“Little girls need to know their place, sorry to say this because I don’t know the whole story, but I know these teenagers behave more bruk out than we old people.”

A banner on her fence warns people to stay away from drugs and 60-year-old Ingrid Subryan is determined to always speak against the scourge of substance abuse, having witnessed the havoc it wreaked in the lives of her two eldest children.

“I know I made a big mistake and every day I am sorry.

“This is the second day I coming here. Yesterday when I come I didn’t even had nothing to eat because I say I would come and get through fast.

Stigma and discrimination continue to be the biggest hindrances to people living with HIV adhering to their medication regime, which affects the country’s ability to achieve UNAIDS 2020 “90-90-90” goals, according to Executive Director of the National Coordinating Coalition Inc (NCC) Simone Sills.

“For 19 years I have been living with HIV and I see the good and the bad in people.

When Amanza Walton-Desir decided to enter the world of Guyanese politics, she said she took a calculated risk.

“I knew it was happening. I closed my legs tight as if to stop it from happening.

Saying he does not regret leaving his United Nations job to fix a “broken” Guyana Lands & Surveys Commission (GL&SC), now former Commissioner Trevor Benn is not surprised at his sacking but has decried the besmirching of his character in what he believes is an attempt to ensure that persons like him cannot find employment outside of Guyana.

He does not remember but his grandmother told him that he was three years old when he first announced that he wanted to be a doctor.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge in every sphere of life and the over 1,900 students and staff members of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) were not spared.

“It is not that I don’t love my mother. I do feel something because if she calls right now I would drop what I am doing and go and help.

As a teacher for ten years, Jamain Hatton has seen his students at some of the highest and lowest points in their lives and he has always pushed them toward the path of success.

“I just wanted you out there to know if you are stepmother or a stepfather, sometimes you would try to protect that child, but you should only protect that child from their biological mother or biological father [if he/she] is a threat, if that mother is an abusive mother or that father is an abusive father…” These were the words of a young woman who posted a video on Facebook where she spoke about growing up without her mother and how difficult it was being denied knowing her mother as a child.

Living in a depressed community for the last eight years, Odessa Primus has seen poverty in all forms and witnessed its negative impacts.

“I used to get licks for tea, breakfast and dinner. You think is two cents I went through in this life?

One of the biggest fallouts from the COVID-19 pandemic is the children who will drop out of the formal school system without completing their education.