Addressing sexual harassment
“I ain’t know dey say I is a senior citizen but I sure nuff a dem young boys does break long before me,” the sleazy words of a man reached my ear.
“I ain’t know dey say I is a senior citizen but I sure nuff a dem young boys does break long before me,” the sleazy words of a man reached my ear.
“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.”
“I looked at her and she was the most beautiful thing I have seen.
“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.”
“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.
“I still don’t understand why we pressure ourselves in these times.
“I just want them to come out of my house. When they are there I have no peace.
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.
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.
“It is hard to find a place to rent in this country when you single and have children.
Sixty-two-year-old Debra Davis is a woman of many stories. She does not look at you while she speaks.
“I agree that when you grow older that you have to somehow get past your childhood hardships and just live because if you hold on to your childhood trauma then you might never be able to live in the true sense.
Almost five years ago when this column first appeared, it detailed a battered woman’s struggle with a system that was not friendly to women like her, and dealing with her abuser whose only intent was for her to return to their matrimonial home.
From all accounts a beautiful soul died last week by suicide.
“It is not easy being a security guard in this country right now, especially since people have to show the COVID vaccine card.
“I looking fuh a new job because I had to just leave the job in the market because I didn’t able with what you have to go through there.
World Suicide Prevention Day is observed annually on September 10. It is organised by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and endorsed by the World Health Organization and represents a global commitment to focus attention on suicide prevention.
“It was a trying 12 years but you know if I had to do it all over again I would do it because even though she never walk, never really talk and you do everything for her she was still such a beautiful child.
“For me, I want my children to go to school because it is like I losing them.
“I am planning to get married again soon and this time I want to wear a white wedding dress.
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