Oluatoyin Alleyne

Savitri was just thirteen years old when she met her husband, and now after more than thirty years of “living hell” she is finally prepared to call it quits with a man she claimed has abused her mentally, emotionally and physically for as long as she can remember.

There are three regional commissioners sitting on the recently set up Commission of Inquiry into the incidents in the mining town of Linden which saw three persons being shot and killed.

In late 2009 Marilyn  realized that she was losing weight rapidly and her worst fear was confirmed when she tested positive for HIV.

What is the ‘People’s Parliament’? In a general sense, it is a grassroots movement aimed at providing a space where the ordinary Guyanese citizen can assemble and share in a conversation about how their lives are being governed.

For almost ten years 41-year-old Ganesh Sukdeo has been suffering from debilitating abdominal pain among other medical complaints, but nothing was worse than being told recently by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) that his pains are not real and that he is fit to work.

Sharma Solomon says he is on a mission to improve the lives of the people of Region 10 and reverse the economic downturn of Linden.

Simona Broomes is a woman who never allows someone else to fight her battles for her, but always ensures that she leads from the front.

If you don’t notice the cane, eight-year-old Mekyla Belgrave comes across as cute little miss who loves sunglasses, and there is nothing about her engaging presence and constant chatter either which would give away the fact that she is blind.

In her younger days 17-year-old Priya Dookie felt that her voice was unconsciously “taken away from me” in the name of discipline, as she was taught to be seen and not be heard and to only “answer when you are called” and “speak when you are spoken to.”

Women are being trafficked from neighbouring Venezuela for labour and prostitution in mining sites near the Cuyuni River, says President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes, who is calling for more support from government and law enforcement to address such situations.

As a child Sade Richardson always knew there was something different about her and it took her years before she realized that she was a female in a male body.

The University of Guyana (UG) in another three years will have a criminologist for the first time in a decade, when lecturer and sociologist Andrew Hicks returns to the institution on completion of his PhD in criminology and criminal justice.

She is surrounded by a group of women who are putting food into boxes on a table.

A small section of the Demerara Harbour Bridge sank yesterday morning, forcing its closure for emergency works and limiting travel between regions Three and Four, especially for commuters who were faced with severe hardship.

The relatives of an unruly thirteen-year-old girl are uncertain about their next move since more than two years of intervention have not succeeded in persuading her to abandon a self-destructive path.

Three little boys sit gingerly on a sofa and survey the strange environment.

Although finding that the National Assembly did not have the power to cut the budget, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday said in an interim ruling that the court could not restore the funding sought by government, except for allocations to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to perform its constitutional duties.

New Registrar of Deeds Azeema Baksh-Singh was appointed although she did not have the qualifications sought by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), in vacancy notices published in November of 2010.

New Registrar of Deeds Azeema Baksh-Singh was appointed although she did not have the qualifications sought by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), in vacancy notices published in November of 2010.

Career nurse Penelope Layne has been quietly leading an army of three at the Guyana Cancer Registry for the last twelve years.