Oluatoyin Alleyne

Six months ago, Harry (not his real name) fell unconscious for the umpteenth time and was bundled into a car and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted.

The teenager who was severely beaten and hogtied after he was among a group allegedly caught stealing vehicle parts is in custody at the La Grange Police Station but members of his family yesterday said they have been denied access to him.

A boy, allegedly caught with others removing car parts, was beaten and then hogtied by Parika residents yesterday, prompting concern and outrage at his treatment.

Electricity has been restored to Bartica and surrounding areas which were thrown into darkness following an explosion at the power station there yesterday, Regional Chairman Holbert Knights told this newspaper today.

Twelve years after she lost her eyesight, Abigail Hamilton still finds every day a struggle; and were it not for her three minor children and a few good friends, she would have given up already.

From the tender age of seven, Richie Righteous knew he wanted to sing and by the age of 18 he was producing and writing his own songs through which he tells the world about Jesus Christ.

Facing increasing criticisms including from Human Services Minister, Priya Manickchand, the George-town Public Hospital (GPHC) yesterday announced the firing of child sex convict Dr Vishwamintra Persaud and Minister of Health, Dr.

US-based Guyanese Sookree Boodram, who had experienced 21 years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, threw her weight behind the rally that was held at the Bourda Ground on Thursday where hundreds of Guyanese spearheaded

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) is expected to terminate the services of child sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud, according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand, who said she was both “horrified” and “appalled” that the doctor was granted a licence and employed in Guyana.

`I am going to call everybody together and sit down, not each hospital but everyone together, and see what has been happening.

In his youth, 81-year-old Sydney Smith was a mechanic and in his words “served my country.”

Twenty-five-year-old Monica Carmichael, who expired after she delivered a still-born baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon, died as a result high blood pressure coupled with a blood clot.

The grandmother of 25-year-old Monica Carmichael, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon after a still-birth, last evening blamed negligence for her granddaughter’s death and called on the authorities to launch a full-fledged investigation.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne Less than three years ago Sandra Braithwaite spent her nights on a tomb in Le Repentir Cemetery and her days doing odd jobs or on a ‘block’ buying cocaine and being merry among ‘friends’.

Some four hundred involuntary re-migrants are now registered with the Juncata Juvant Friendly Society less than four years after it came into existence and according to its Vice-President Donna Snagg, while it has been growing in membership, resources remain a challenge.

Sixty-one-year-old Julie Ramlall was a woman who many in the community of La Grange, West Coast looked up to and turned to for advice, so it came as a great shock when the retired headmistress took her own life on October 22.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is demanding that the Ministry of Education withdraw the letters of sanction it sent to Queen’s College (QC) teachers even as new information coming to light reveals that the QC Board was aware of the plight of murdered teenager Neesa Gopaul and had written several letters to the ministry about it.

– grandparents had sent children back over $$$ The team mandated by Minister       of Human Services, Priya Manickchand to investigate the handling of Neesa Gopaul’s case has recommended that two officers be fired and another demoted for their failure in adequately assisting the child who was brutally murdered after more than a year of abuse.

A 21-year-old pregnant woman stricken by bone cancer is in constant pain but she is unable to take any painkillers because of her unborn child and in the end she gives birth to a stillborn and she herself dies, her agonizing screams a heartrending sound that’s difficult to forget.

-OAS security expert A number of Caribbean countries which are favoured tourist destinations are now the centre of a growing sex tourism industry, an Organisation of American States security expert said yesterday, and he also  warned about concerns that the Free Movement of Skilled Nationals in Caricom could result in increased human trafficking.