Oluatoyin Alleyne

The fact that St Cuthbert’s (Pakuri) is just a few hours’ drive from the capital may be responsible for the village losing some of its cultural identity and heritage, but there are still those who are striving to ensure that that next generation knows what it means to be an Arawak Amerindian.

After spending thirty-six years in the teaching profession, more than half of which was spent teaching the blind, Ingrid Peters is distressed about the education afforded to children who are blind and is strongly advocating that a special school for them be established.

At age 14 Jenny (not her real name) was removed from the place she called home where she lived under horrific conditions.

As a child Mosa Telford struggled with the colour of her skin since  her dark complexion resulted in her peers teasing her mercilessly and she never felt that she was good enough.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday rescued two women—including a Trinidad national—from the 14 Miles Backdam, in Region Seven, where they were being held against their will by a shop owner.

The Coalition for the 1823 Parade Ground Monument yesterday held a ‘Remembrance Walk/ Freedom Walk’ in honour of the 1823 martyrs from Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara as the group signalled its determination to build a monument to the martyrs at Parade Ground.

Spots of blood still stain the Diamond, East Bank Deme-rara home where seventeen-year-old Angela McAllister was slaughtered last Thursday with a cutlass and spade by her boyfriend.

Diagnosed with rheumatic fever at the age of three, Tiffany Ward lost mobility in her legs when she was just fifteen, forcing her to leave school in the fourth form because of the excruciating pain she had been enduring for months.

Forty-six-year-old Roxanne Alkins, up until recently a cook in a Puruni Backdam mining camp, is seeking justice after she was assaulted by a co-worker whose sexual advances she turned down.

Forty-year-old Marilyn Severin attempted to abort her baby three times by using the drug Cytotec and it was only on the third attempt when she was more than six months pregnant that the baby boy was expelled.

Almost 174 years ago eighty-three men and women who had been freed from slavery paid the price of 30,000 guilders for what was then known as plantation Northbrook, a cotton plantation of about 500 acres, and today that plantation is known as the village of Victoria, fondly referred to as the ‘first village.’

The Museum of African Heritage for years has been working to keep the rich cultural history of Africans alive and administrator Jenny Daly said that the museum is not just a treasure chest of African art but is also active in revitalizing African folklore groups around the country.

Thirty-seven years ago Beverley Drake fulfilled her father’s dream as much as her own, and as he watched his daughter become one of Guyana’s first military pilots, his facial expression reflected his pride and joy.

The government yesterday shelved its parliamentary business after a failed bid to force an adjournment of the National Assembly’s sitting to win consensus with the opposition on the contentious Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.

At least one of the females rescued from 14 Miles, Region 7 last weekend was already known to the system as she had been removed from her mother’s home and placed in a state shelter before being returned by the authorities.

Growing up in a tenement yard, Basil Gibbons would have had direct knowledge of broken families and would have seen how the absence of opportunities denied the young the possibility of developing their potential.

Since 2009 a mother has been struggling with her mentally ill son who had a promising future, but she has been frustrated by the system.

Even though the Guyana Police Force has declared “zero tolerance” for domestic violence the treatment meted out to victims of physical and sexual violence at some police stations has left a lot to be desired.

A group has taken up the challenge of returning Festival City to its glory days with the ultimate aim of making it self-sustainable.

Sunday Stabroek speaks to two psychiatrists There are a growing number of persons with obvious signs of mental illness on the streets and there have been many calls for the government to address this problem more especially in the light of some recent cases where persons were attacked by the mentally disturbed.