“It’s very stressful being unemployed. I ain’t getting assist from nowhere I was unemployed… about a month now. I used to do domestic [work] but since the ‘corona,’ I get send off,” Kemandra Kendell says.
Kendell is a single mother of two and one of the many persons who are currently struggling to make ends meet in wake of the restrictions now in place to safeguard the populace following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) here.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have been forced to take extreme measures to keep citizens healthy and safe and in Guyana this has seen the suspension of non-essential services, which has left some persons jobless and with little to no means of carrying on with their day to day lives.