Oluatoyin Alleyne

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.

AFC MP Moses Nagamootoo yesterday laced into the government for overspending and corruption and announced his party’s intention to cut “bad project allocations, waste and extravagance” from the proposed budget that he believes has been tailored to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the parasitic and bureaucratic class.

At 73, all of Maude Whyte’s six children were adults and she enjoyed being a grandmother and not having the day to day responsibilities of taking care of children but then life took an unexpected tragic twist and she found herself being responsible for five children, the youngest being a mere two years.

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Plaisance is in the dark about the erection of a tower for government’s e-governance project on the community centre ground which was initiated at the direction of the Office of the President (OP).

In order for businesswomen in Guyana to grow they need to see each other as partners and collaborate instead of just competitors and to “look at the bigger picture of things and not be small minded,” Lucia L Desir says.

High on this year’s agenda for the Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation (GWMO) is the acquisition of a piece of land in Bartica to build a home for victims of trafficking in persons and child labour, the organisation’s President Simona Broomes has revealed.

Artist Desmond Alli feels that Guyanese have become “numb” and “immune” to injustices and therefore are mostly silent when these occur with only a few raising not very vigorous voices.

A woman is beaten within an inch of her life by her partner and is forced to seek refuge with a friend whose husband then starts to make sexual advances.

By the end of this year the National Archives of Guyana, housed in the building named the Walter Rodney Archives, will have commenced digitizing their records, while also placing some on microfilm, acting archivist Nadia Carter said.

A new foundation is encouraging Carib-bean diaspora citizens to be part of a ‘Give-Back campaign’ and is promising persons an avenue for them to give back “virtually or physically to their country of birth or the county of their parents’ birth.”

All that is left of most of the sites where the Berbice Uprising took place 250 years ago is bush, bush and more bush.

The head of the committee that green-lit entries in this year’s Mashramani calypso competition says there were no objections to the songs by Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony or other officials over the last few months and it was surprising that the decision was taken to yank them from the airwaves of state-run broadcaster National Com-munication Network (NCN).

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday condemned state TV NCN’s ban of this year’s calypso competition offerings and the Region Ten administration plans to “seek redress” for those whose songs have been shunned to “ensure it does not happen again,” Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon said.

Eighty years ago the Carnegie Trade School, now the Carnegie School of Home Economics, opened its doors with the objective of relieving unemployment among women, something that was accomplished in the early stages mainly by making uniforms for postal workers.

Louisa Daggers describes herself as a “heritage enthusiast” and the newly appointed Anthropological Officer of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology has plans to advance the work of the museum, particularly in the academic field.

The Deeds and Commercial registries are expected to be delinked in another year and a half with Registrar of Deeds Azeema Baksh hoping that this will lift the image of the Deeds Registry and keep it transparent and accountable.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Paul Bhim has said that the sugar corporation is aware that the head of the Torani Canal is progressively becoming shallower because the banks of the canal are eroding and sliding into the water, but that the “situation does not pose any immediate threat to the area.”

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chinese in Guyana.

Anywhere there is a large grouping of Chinese nationals living in a community there will be a mini-economic boom as a consequence of the businesses they have established.

More and more young people are becoming involved in sex work especially ‘transactional sex’ because of poor economic circumstances, and instead of the authorities helping them to practise safe sex and provide alternatives they demonise them pushing them underground which will only increase the incidence of HIV and AIDS.