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.
Nine years ago businesswoman Han Granger-Gaskin gave birth to her fourth child and hours after his birth she was told that from all indications he had Down syndrome.
“It is really heartbreaking. Sometimes you are feeling that you are the only one facing this and the court is being unfair and you are being treated terribly but there are so many other women who are going through the same thing.
If a young Heather Morris had her way, she would have become an artist, a pianist or even a lawyer but with guidance from her father she walked into the medical field and today as a dermatologist she is where she belongs.
Last Monday, a beautiful life ended tragically. Trudy De Haarte was more than the woman who walked in the Brickdam Police Station and ended her life with the stun gun she had used when rescuing countless dogs and other animals; she had a passion for this work.
Gwendolin Tross has survived cancer four times, the most recent being last year, but as painful as those diagnoses and follow-up treatments have been, a continuous ache for this 81-year-old retiree is the state of nursing in Guyana.
Women generally shy away from talking about their vaginas and are ashamed at times to seek help when all is not well with that important organ of their body.
Depression and anxiety are mental health problems, but people are often afraid to admit that they are struggling with these complaints because they are ashamed or do not want to be labelled as mad.
When Tandy Tappin read for her degree in education, she faced years of trials and hardships, which included losing her only son as well as her mother in less than a year, all of which resulted in her graduating long after she was due.
“My story starts with fibroids and I wouldn’t forget the gynaecologist who for almost ten years told me that I was infertile, and I would never be able to have a baby.”
Alliance for Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for the minimum wage to be moved to $100,000 as he said that is the only way the average Guyanese can survive the rising cost of living.
APNU+AFC frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday hammered the government for its perceived failure to address the effects of inflation and to take better care of the neediest citizens as she opened the parliamentary debate on the $552.9 billion national budget.