As countries around the world battle with the mental health fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, Guyana, according to Director of the Ministry of Public Health’s Mental Health Unit Dr Util Richmond-Thomas, has been able to grapple with this issue because there is a large ground force of trained personnel in primary care who know what to do with persons presenting mental health issues.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, juveniles in the national holding centre are still accessing the justice system remotely.
“I really can’t take this thing. Is like I sick and all and should take a bed in the hospital.
“I am faced, with a very bad, bad case of defamation of character—that portrays me as a prostitute, publicly [and] widespread,” she said.
Young nurse Allison Denica Thomas baulked at working in the coronavirus transition unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) but months after she has been stationed there she finds motivation in reporting for duty every day because as she puts it, “the world needs help”.
“I feel a bit encouraged because some persons have reached out to me telling me a bit of their story and I have tried my best to encourage them to have faith and stay strong,” the mother of one said.
“The first time he hit me was the last, it had to be.
After listening to more than six hours of submissions, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday set next Wednesday at 3pm to rule on whether it has jurisdiction to hear the appeal taken before it by PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo and PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali, challenging the decision of the local Court of Appeal to pronounce on the constitutional meaning of “votes cast” at the March 2 polls.
John’s (not his real name) gait is confident, his shoulders are arched, and he smiles as he greets me, giving the sense that all is well.
“The rain wet me through and through. You see, I had to take off me socks today.
In the quiet village of Wakenaam many, many years ago, two teachers gave their eleven-year-old son a book as a birthday gift.
“I was molested when I was 12 years old and you know what was the worst part of it?
Emile Mervin was at work on the evening of April 4th, when he realised that something was wrong.
A 25-year-old mother of three is seeking answers from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where doctors performed an emergency operation on her after she visited to have an Intrauterine device (IUD) removed.
When Sally Persaud learnt she had cervical cancer she immediately remembered her daughter Stephanie, who had died from ovarian cancer several years before and she believed that would have been her fate as well.
“I am kind of scared and everybody like me, you know they scared.
A child alone with an alcoholic parent, a ‘little old lady’ who just wanted something to eat and pensioner who wanted assistance in accessing her diabetes medication were among the over 200 calls received by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) for the month of April.
“I really don’t know what will happen when all of this is over.
There are some unsung heroes who we see every day but often do not recognize them for who they are.
“I am now getting the hang of it, but I can tell you this is the new me, the planting.
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