Oluatoyin Alleyne

A cancer diagnosis is a heavy burden for anyone but for Carol Dabie it came with many other woes that would likely break the strongest among us.

As Guyana and the rest of the world ends the observance of cervical cancer awareness month, resident obstetrician and gynaecologist (OBGYN) Dr Raveendranath Ichlangod is encouraging women to have pap smears done as soon as they are 20 and every year after as too many are still turning up for treatment with late stage cancer.

“I looked at her and she was the most beautiful thing I have seen.

As a child Jamal Lewis always knew that he was leaning towards a career in the science field as he performed excellently in Mathematics and Sciences, and while initially he concluded that he would become a medical doctor a light bulb moment came late in high school as he was watching a CBS 60 Minutes feature on tissue engineering.

“Sometimes I think about them every day. Like how they would look now and, you know, how they would behave and I does cry up to now, by myself in the night I would just cry sometimes.”

Almost two years ago when COVID-19 became a reality in Guyana and schools were shut, Monix Hetemeyer, a teacher, saw how students around her were suffering and with the support of other like-minded colleagues, she started an online platform – Teachers’ Initiative Online Programme – to assist in teaching students who were not being engaged at the time.

“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.

Ensuring that people focus on wellbeing and self-care is part of what keeps counsellor Michelle Amsterdam going as she aims to remain in the psychology field for the rest of her life.

“I still don’t understand why we pressure ourselves in these times.

What started out as a volunteer post in the office of a commissioner of the Miami-Dade County over 30 years ago, evolved into a full-time job for a young Christine King as she assisted in ensuring that the commissioner served the community that elected him.

Boys are made vulnerable to sexual abuse due to lack of care within a culture that accepts and allows relaxed supervision for them, a recent study commissioned by ChildLink has concluded.

“I just want them to come out of my house. When they are there I have no peace.

The family of an 18-year-old girl who recently took her own life are blaming officers at the Cove and John Police Station for her drastic action because of the way they handled her allegation of rape against a taxi driver.

Regaled by his maternal grandmother about the exploits of lawyers at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate Court, a young Jensen Samaroo was so intrigued not just by the stories but the obvious admiration she had for lawyers that he resolved in his heart to become a legal luminary she would be proud of.

After years of trying, La Trisha Layne got pregnant and had just begun looking forward to motherhood when 12 weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage and soon found that there was no support for the crippling grief she endured.

Almost three years after her home’s completion, a single mother is unable to move into it because of a mix up with measurement of her land, preventing her from building a fence around her home as she would be doing so on her neighbour’s land.

Raiza Khan had started on a totally different career path when through volunteerism she found her niche, made the switch to psychology and today has opened her own practice counselling individuals, couples, children, doing group therapy.

Last Sunday four-year-old Kiana Amaya Niles lost her almost one year battle with brain cancer when she took her final breath in the paediatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) surrounded by her mom and other relatives.

Elizabeth Sue-Alert was doing a Zoom interview when she was interrupted by a timid child’s voice.

“It is hard to find a place to rent in this country when you single and have children.