Miranda La Rose

From Mabaruma in Region One, Barima/Waini, Anita Lynette Baird, has lived her dream in electronics, radio journalism and public relations and she aims to continue working in communications and social work as a consultant or as a director of a company where she can contribute to uplifting people’s lives.

Although he might appear to have become persona non grata to the Guyana Police Force over the past two years, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Esmond Slowe, who was decorated for his service to the institution, thinks it’s a matter of his professionalism and integrity. 

Guyana’s honorary consul to Jamaica since 1996, attorney Indera Persaud says people from around the world are making enquiries about Guyana and people with little or no roots to the country now want Guyanese nationality on account of the oil boom.

A programme manager with the Delegation of the European Union to Guyana, Jude B Da Silva has ended up right where she dreamed she would when she was a teenager in Santa Rosa, Moruca, Region One.

Very early in her life, Amlata Persaud distinguished herself academically, topping the country at the Secondary Schools Entrance Examinations, the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations in 1999 and later at the GCE ‘A’ Levels examinations.

Aside from its watchdog role, the local media have had to help people understand their rights under the constitution and the functions of the different arms of government so they are better equipped to hold public office holders accountable, says Guyana Press Association (GPA) President Nazima Raghubir.

This is tenth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) has observed that many people and some civil society organisations do not want to speak out about corruption taking place in the country because senior government officials are attempting to intimidate them into silence, its president, Frederick Collins, says.

To call Calvin Roberts, 27, ambitious might be an understatement. Roberts has his sights set on many achievements, not least of which is becoming a medical doctor.

This is the ninth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana Civil society activist Yog Mahadeo says the 2016 oil agreement between the government and ExxonMobil is like the proverbial knee on the necks of Guyanese and the group he is part of has the right to advocate on matters of public interest in line with Article 13 of the Constitution.

Listening to her grandparents, uncles and residents in Craig, East Bank Demerara discuss the political events of the day in the family shop during her early years, Sara Bharrat, 33, learned how they took part in community life, how neighbours helped one another during the strife of the 60s, how “they made out” under Forbes Burnham, and so she developed an interest for politics. 

This is the eighth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana Every year the Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) submits substantial reports to  Parliament with recommendations which are laid in the National Assembly  but have never been debated or considered, according to WGEC commissioner Vanda Radzik.

At the New Fire Festival in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019, agro processor Andrew Campbell, 32, who was already involved in dehydrating local fruits for snacks, was encouraged to get involved in chocolate making by a Trinidadian social activist and chocolatier and so began his sojourn into the chocolate making cottage industry.

When Althea Harding was attending the University of Guyana (UG) about five years ago, a lecturer asked Indigenous students what nation they belonged to.

This is the seventh entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.

This is the sixth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.

About four to five years ago, Aisha Jones, better known as the rapper ATayJAH, was going through some mental health issues and was suicidal.

This is the fifth entry in a series on civil society.

Marti Fernando De Souza, 39, Deputy Chief Education Officer with responsibility for Amerindian and Hinterland Education Development, is working to eliminate the disparity that exists in the education system between the hinterland and the coastland, create opportunities for trained and qualified teachers to teach, and to improve pass rates in examinations in hinterland areas.

This is the fourth entry in a series on civil society Apart from an introductory meeting when this government took office in August 2020, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has been unable to meet with the Minister of Amerindian Affairs to discuss a number of issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, policy and legislative reform, says Governance and Rights Coordinator, Laura George.

Former national and Caribbean champion, US-elite and world-ranked table tennis player-turned-coach Idi Lewis is optimistic that should the state invest in providing sportsmen and women with their own homes, using revenue earned from oil and gas exploitation, local athletes would be a force to be reckoned with in the international arena.