Oluatoyin Alleyne

As she spoke, I saw the hurt in the face of the pretty young woman sitting across from me, although she initially said she had gotten over what had happened.

Stacey Dos Santos Rahaman and her husband Chris Rahaman are warriors for Guyana, and they will fiercely defend this land of many waters they call home.

“I feel very stressed out. I feel upset, but I am accepting, in a way, that it happened.

Lumps in their breasts alerted two women that something was wrong and even though they quickly sought medical help, they were not prepared to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

“Well mine has stopped and I can’t say I have missed it.

From the age of 11 years old, she was repeatedly raped by a relative.

“You know they say you mek you children but you ain’t mek they mind?

Presidential candidate of The New Movement (TNM) Dr Asha Kissoon believes that her party is the cure to the political disease that has been plaguing Guyana.

When Rondha-Ann Lam decided to take her politics public, she knew it would not have been an easy journey and while she said so far it has been just as she expected, she has had to make some “painful choices” and has lost some ‘friends’ along the way.

“Sometimes I would sit in my house for days and don’t come out and nobody would understand the depression I going through.

Thirty-one years ago, Fiona Harewood fled the country of her birth to escape an abusive husband and over the years has worked herself up from cleaning houses to being employed with the US Federal Government.

“You know what is the hardest thing?” she asked. I knew she was not expecting an answer.

The tragic stories of teenagers who were both rejected by their families as a result of their HIV positive status are what pushed Dr Niccollette Boatswain to join in the fight against the virus in Guyana.

A sister shared about her eye-opening experience during a recent visit to Mahdia, in Region Eight.

The first ten months of 2019 saw some 3,752 reported cases of child abuse and while there is much more to be done, the country has come a far way in relation to the response to the scourge, Director of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene says.

“For me, just getting a new start is good enough. I ain’t really putting no meaning to New Year’s Day but I just happy that in the new year I not the same way I start out and for that I just thanking God.

“Sometimes I want to do so much, and it just gets to me.

Two years ago, he travelled miles to surprise one of his two daughters for her birthday, but the conditions under which he found his daughters living broke his heart and with the permission of their mom, he moved them to the city in the hope of giving them a better life.

“Security guards work under terrible conditions and not just where you work, but also there is sometimes no paid leave… If you call in sick you are not paid.

When Simone Poole was seven-years-old, she had a collision with a schoolmate that left her immobile for more than a day and after she regained movement in her legs, her gait was never the same.