Oluatoyin Alleyne

The head of the Torani Canal has become progressively shallower as the banks of the canal are eroding and sliding into the water.

When Carol Harris retired recently from her job as a community health worker in the Berbice River, her children had a surprise ‘welcome home’ celebration for the mother who spent more of her time in service to the local communities than at home.

President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes yesterday pledged the organisation’s support in the fight against human trafficking and other social ills in the interior, even as she bemoaned the “scant regard” from some government agencies that appear resistant to cooperating with the GWMO.

Merlene Ellis has lived art all her life and while this is not an easy profession to follow in Guyana she would tell you that for over 12 years it has been her only means of income.

Speaker Raphael Trotman has said acting Chief Justice Ian Chang’s ruling on the move to gag Home Minister Clement Rohee is not binding on him or the National Assembly, but he will file an appeal to further clarify the court’s authority over the legislature.

Many magistrates lack the legal knowledge needed to deliver justice to victims of domestic and gender-based violence, according to Guyana Legal Aid Clinic Managing Attorney Simone Morris-Ramlall, who says the local legal system is insensitive to gender issues and a restructuring is needed to ensure those who need help get it.

The Guyana Women’s Miners Association (GWMA) is advocating that women insist on something in writing before proceeding to work in the interior as too many of them are robbed by unscrupulous employers and most times they are unable to seek redress through the Ministry of Labour.

Ruling on one of several battles between the executive and the legislature, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday found that Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee as an elected member has a right to speak in the National Assembly although it does not appear to be enforceable by the court.

The Guyana Defence Force Co-operative Credit Union’s decision to grant loans on the security of vehicles purchased through its Auto Sales Department “appears to be unlawful” since no permission for this move was received from the Chief Co-operatives Development Officer, chartered accounting firm Ram & McRae has found.

It is the desire to entertain with top-notch performances of classical and harmonic music that keeps the members of the Georgetown Chamber Chorus (GCC) together, even though the only payment they receive is the gratitude of their audiences.

Unfortunate circumstances forced state officials to remove two little girls from the only places they called home, and now they are living as sisters with another mother whose only wish is to make this Christmas a memorable one for them.

Work on local government reform legislation—expected to lay the foundations for the holding of polls due since 1997—has hit another roadblock as the government and opposition are at an impasse on which side should chair the parliamentary committee that has been set up to drive the process forward.

Benny Wenda has horrible memories of his childhood days in West Papua and relates chilling stories of his village being bombed by the Indonesian military and watching his female relatives being raped in front of his eyes.

Former Leader of the Opposition and the PNCR Robert Corbin has said that Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee was symbolic of the security sector’s inability to perform and he should take responsibility for this.

Too many women and children continue to die and this signals that something is systemically wrong with the country’s health system, says new head of the Medical Council of Guyana Dr Vivienne Mitchell-Amata, who said the answer lies in improving the competence of our medical practitioners.

Indranie Sugrim managed to dial the mobile phone of her 11-year-old daughter yesterday morning moments before she was brutally knifed to death in her Cummings Lodge home, allegedly by the man she had shared an on-and-off relationship with for the past five years.

Yvette Archer-Alexander, the headmistress of the St Ignatius Secondary School in Region Nine has withdrawn her resignation following an intervention by Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam which will see the temporary transfer of a troublesome teacher to the Department of Education in Region 9.

Newly appointed judge Sandra Kertzious practised as an attorney for years, but when she “fell in love“ with family law a more apt description would have been ‘counsellor,’ as she worked on mending the families of her clients.

A three-year-old boy is overheard speaking gibberish as he happily skips up the stairs of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in the company of his mother, who has a baby in her arms.

-as motion referred to Privileges Committee Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman last evening placed a partial gag on Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, pending the findings of the Privileges Committee on a motion brought by Opposition Leader David Granger to censor the minister.