At 22 Shelly (not her real name) has had to face many difficulties, but even after becoming a teenage mother, being disowned by her own mother, and losing a child under tragic circumstances, she has never given up.
When Jerimiah Williams left the David Rose School for children with special needs he was employed at a supermarket as a bag-packer, even though there were obvious signs that he was an intelligent young man who could achieve much more.
The government yesterday failed to win opposition support for amendments to the Customs Act, despite its arguments that the failure to legislate the changes would expose the country to litigation and sanctions.
The Ministry of Human Services & Social Security, the Guyana Police Service, the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) collaborated early last week to remove a deaf and mute teenager from the No 58 Mabura, Region 10 area who is suspected of having been trafficked.
Women are now being offered the opportunity to celebrate their pregnancies in a “very artistic style” by having their enlarged tummies painted with a design of their choosing and then having photographs taken which they will have as keepsakes.
A 65-year-old woman had what she described as a “painful and bloody experience” when what should have been a simple procedure of removing an intrauterine device (IUD) at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) went horribly wrong after the doctor was forced to abandon the procedure because the hospital did not have the instrument needed to remove the device.
Locally-funded publishing house Caribbean Press is facing a serious human resource crisis as its current editor Professor David Dabydeen plans to take a back seat to focus on his own writing and his quest to find suitable candidates to take up the mantle has hit a brick wall.
Three years ago there was little hope that 13-year-old Adunni Blair would have gone on to attend secondary school, but today after participating in the Buxton Youth Developers Literacy Project she is a student of the Annandale Secondary School on the East Coast, and is performing exceptionally well.
A domestic problem forced Cheryl Allen-Josiah to leave her home many years ago, but looking back today she feels that it not only strengthened the marital bond between herself and husband but it also provided an avenue to follow a career path she had long wanted to follow: carpentry and masonry.
Thirty-eight-year-old Mahendra Persaud has been working with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for the past 23 years and while it is a job that comes with benefits, he does not wish to have his children work as cane-harvesters.
On a Monday morning early 83-year-old Iris Mangru heads over to her fruit orchard, something she has been doing for as long as she can remember even though she knows that there is not much she can do there these days.
Slightly bent over, her glasses perched precariously on her wizened face, Sukdiah Mohabir hurried down a street in the village of Canefield, Canje, Berbice on a sunny morning impatient to match the strides of the younger woman holding her hand.
President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes is shuttering her mining operation in the Puruni Backdam, where she and other members last Sunday rescued four girls who were being held captive as sex workers.
Several years ago Mary (not her real name) an American citizen met a man and like many women before her she finally thought she had met the man of her dreams.
Since Kojo Parris was the beneficiary of a sound education, he wanted to create an avenue to help students achieve this as well, and so together with likeminded persons he has created the Roraima Learning Trust (RLT).
Six months after she travelled to the National Ophthalmology Hospital in Port Mourant to have what she thought was simple cataract surgery done, a sixty year old woman is still suffering the consequences of that surgery and said she would not wish the experience on her worst enemy.
Forty-five-year-old Patrenella Wilkie watched her daughter die from what started as a “mild fever” and she blames the lack of proper medical facilities available in the 72 Miles, Region Seven community for her death.
The Guyana Cancer Institute has been refused a licence to operate over the last year because of “deficiencies” that need to be addressed and Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran says these include the leakage of radiation into adjoining rooms and the corridors from its radiation therapy machine.