Long before Patricia Cummings made headlines for vaccinating United States Vice-President Kamala Harris, she was a nurse who enjoyed caring for her patients as much as she could.
A year ago, unsung marine turtle conservationist, Audley James, 80, left the protected area of Shell Beach, Mabaruma Sub-region after 33 years, knowing that the once dwindling population of endangered marine turtles in north western Guyana was on the increase.
Today is Emancipation Day, and millions of Afro-Caribbean people within the Region and across the diaspora will be celebrating the abolition of slavery across the British Empire.
Introduction
Today’s column wraps-up my interrogation cum discussion of the mis-representations, deceptions, and fake news hurled at Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector.
Intermittently, and especially during memorable times up the immense and soul-redeeming Essequibo, I like to read Shelley – as we all should do from time to time since he is pre-eminently the poet of hope.
How might things have been different if Marvel had decided to produce a “Black Widow” film that opened in 2017 to explore the past of Natasha Romanoff?
It happen here a lil while back, in the middle of we MASH
We ban some calypso outright friend, no more airplay, one lash
But why they pick on kaiso man, I just don’t understand
There are more important things now we should ban
The civil servant with a fancy house taking bribe left and right
Ban that, immediately yes, ban that
Some gutters up in Albouystown that block up day and night
Ban that, oh yes, no argument, ban that
And the ones that we have driving, drunk on vodka, rum or gin
If you want to ban, right away, with that crowd, let’s begin
Ban all the corruption, and the poor construction, look around and you’ll see
Like pot holes in the road, ban that now.
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As a young doctor in internal medicine Kamela Bemaul-Sukhu was troubled by the many patients with blood disorders who at times lay in hospital beds for long periods with no real help given to them; this drove her to become specialised and today she is the only hematologist in the country.
“If you think gold mining is hard, the mining industry is harder to regulate and harder to manage because there are so many people with so many agendas, it is difficult to keep yourself on the straight and narrow—but keep yourself you must, if you want change,” says Urica Primus, founder member and President of the NGO, Guyana Women’s Miners’ Organisation (GWMO).