Miranda La Rose

The Canada-based Justice Education Society’s (JES) project to improve access to justice for women, girls and indigenous people locally will launch public education information messages on sexual and gender-based violence and access to justice in Annai, Region Nine later this week, according to JES Project Director and Country Representative Lisa Thompson. 

Retired and rehired special education teacher extraordinaire Ingrid Daphne Peters nee Waithe, 66, was earlier this month inducted into the Women and Gender Equality Commission’s inaugural Women’s Hall of Fame for her pioneering role in integrating blind and visually impaired students into the mainstream education system, enabling them to write the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) examinations.

Twenty years after the 2005 flood To many on the lower East Coast Demerara, the 2005 flood felt like it was the beginning of the end as the water continued to rise on day two after January 15.

Women and community development activist, and Wapichan weaver Alma O’Connell of Maruranau Village in South Rupununi is engaged in many activities in her community and in the wider district to give women and girls in particular exposure to develop and to represent themselves.

“Mai-u bay matraman” is an invitation to “let’s go do self-help and then eat and drink afterwards” in Macushi, one of the indigenous languages of, mainly, the North Rupununi.

Well-known for his artistry and creativity in his award-winning designs and glamorous creations of Mashramani floats over several decades, John Fernandes will once again this year not have any of his work on show in the parade of the bands.

Clinical physiotherapist Soroya Simmons, 29, has been instrumental in setting up a rehabilitation centre at Mabaruma Regional Hospital in Region One (Barima/Waini) and a physiotherapy gym at Supply Health Centre, East Bank Demerara as she follows her passion to heal people through physical therapy.

Great flood, 20 years after… Residents along the East Coast Demerara who suffered massive losses from the 2005 flood that resulted from the overtopping of the East Demerara Water Conservancy still believe that it was an act of God and a reminder to the administration to get its act together in the face of climate change.

On a day like today, 20 years ago, many residences and businesses along Guyana’s eastern coast were inundated, having been affected by massive flooding in the country’s biggest natural disaster to date.

The death of her daughter Sydney Benjamin to cervical cancer has led social advocate and cancer awareness ambassador for the Giving Hope Foundation Desiree Edghill to join the calls for early screening for cervical cancer and for parents to get their children vaccinated against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer.

Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers’ Social Worker of the Year 2024 awardee Samantha Craig, 46, established programmes for at-risk youth, at one time using her own funds and working overtime without pay, to get positive results never expecting an award, more so the Diamond Award which recognised her outstanding leadership and the positive impact she made in social work.

Adel’s Rainforest Resort at the mouth of Akawini Creek and the Pomeroon River is a paradise for wildlife, especially birds of all plumage.

Adjudged the winner in the Best Caribbean Street Food Trader 2024 category in the United Kingdom’s Caribbean Annual Food Awards, Mahalia Arjoon, 52, wants women to know they can rise above unfortunate circumstances as she has done.

Winella Cameron-Greene, who turned her Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home into a temporary animal sanctuary, will next Sunday December 15, lead a five-kilometre walk to raise awareness of animal cruelty.

Indigenous people’s advocate, co-founder of the Guyanese Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) and former schoolteacher Colin Klautky, 63, was elected by civil society organisations to sit on the Indigenous People’s Commission in November 2022 and is still waiting to be sworn in.

When she was 15 years old, businesswoman and humanitarian Sita Sugrim fell ill.

Two-time Olympian and national table tennis ace player Chelsea Edghill aims to shift the low thinking of how sports are viewed locally to that of it being viewed professionally, with her  newly minted Edge Sports Management (ESM) consultancy that seeks to provide services in sport, athlete and sports event management “I am focusing on policy and strategy development in sport management generally.

Having provided 26 years of voluntary service in sport administration nationally, Dr Karen Pilgrim, a veterinarian by training, believes that Guyana will not achieve the glory it is seeking in the field of athletics until it institutes proper programmes in schools, and sport no longer has to depend heavily on volunteerism. 

Hotelier and tour operator Zena Stoll, who owns Adel’s Resort and Coconut Estate at the mouth of Akawini Creek and the Pomeroon River, unknown to many, has been a pioneer of eco-tourism in Guyana.

When he was 16 years old, Jermaine Joseph of Wismar, Linden gained admission to the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) to pursue the diploma in agriculture.