Leaving an abusive marriage after more than 30 years
“I feel bad because they come out of my belly. When I was younger I take care of them and now they get big they turn they back on me.
“I feel bad because they come out of my belly. When I was younger I take care of them and now they get big they turn they back on me.
“This is it fuh me. I don’t want another man and if he is not for me then I give up.
The first time Kathleen Anderson was sexually abused she was just four years old.
A public health nurse, a registered nurse and two nursing assistants are the members of the army of nurses who have been battling for patients at the Public Health Skin Clinic/National Leprosy Control Clinic over the years and for them it is a war that is worth fighting.
“It was not a nice experience at all… I just don’t know what to say.
When Samantha Tross became the first female black orthopaedic surgeon in the United Kingdom, this was not a feat she was aiming at; she just had her mind set on specialising in a medical field that gives her almost instant work satisfaction.
“When the pandemic came it was already a struggle for me because the elections was there and people was not coming.
Some may say that Dr Indhira Harry was predestined to become a mental health practitioner but for her it was really witnessing the results of the holistic treatment of a person’s mind in the final stages of her studies that drew her to the field rather than growing up with psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry as a father.
“The first time she run away it was like my whole heart did get cut out.
Some years ago, Marva Williams visited a doctor’s office and collapsed.
“I happy fuh school to open. I know it guh be a lil hard because now you have to think about putting things in the lunch kit when before you know wah ever lil you get you just cook and left fuh them.
The deaths of two of his beloved singers due to their addiction of drugs is what drove an adult Shirvington Hannays to become a clinical supervisor, addiction counsellor and TeleHealth mental health professional, but he took this route also when he was at the lowest point in his life and was on the verge of ending it.
At 26 and the mother of a 15-month-old baby, Nadine Jalil-Rahat has not experienced any form of abuse, but she has seen and heard enough to take action.
During last week the public at large viewed a shocking video of a young woman being viciously abused.
As a child, Vidya Ketwaroo was a regular visitor to the hospital because of illness and it was there she fell in love with the nurse’s uniform and knew one day it would be hers to wear.
“Every month is a different story. Some months there is nothing and some other months it is not even half of what is supposed to be there.
A rank who was probing the rape complaint of 18-year-old Tonika Calder, who later died by suicide, was charged with criminal negligence earlier this year but the matter was thrown out by a magistrate at the Vigilance court because the charge was ruled as “bad in law,” according to sources.
As a teenager Lady Eve (not her real name) had such painful periods that she rolled on the floor and the flow was so heavy that she was period shamed countless times by her schoolmates.
As a child Tennesha Bristol experienced sexual abuse at the hands of a relative and it was subsequently compounded by verbal abuse from other family members who blamed her for what was done to her and did not offer the support she so desperately needed.
This week, a sister walks us through the process of her divorce and filing for child support.
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