When Tandy Tappin read for her degree in education, she faced years of trials and hardships, which included losing her only son as well as her mother in less than a year, all of which resulted in her graduating long after she was due.
“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.
When Robeena Zaman recently earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work, it was much more than an academic accomplishment.
When COVID-19 hit the United States, New York City was considered the epicentre of the disease.
“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.”
Alliance for Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for the minimum wage to be moved to $100,000 as he said that is the only way the average Guyanese can survive the rising cost of living.
APNU+AFC frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday hammered the government for its perceived failure to address the effects of inflation and to take better care of the neediest citizens as she opened the parliamentary debate on the $552.9 billion national budget.
A cancer diagnosis is a heavy burden for anyone but for Carol Dabie it came with many other woes that would likely break the strongest among us.
As Guyana and the rest of the world ends the observance of cervical cancer awareness month, resident obstetrician and gynaecologist (OBGYN) Dr Raveendranath Ichlangod is encouraging women to have pap smears done as soon as they are 20 and every year after as too many are still turning up for treatment with late stage cancer.
“I looked at her and she was the most beautiful thing I have seen.
As a child Jamal Lewis always knew that he was leaning towards a career in the science field as he performed excellently in Mathematics and Sciences, and while initially he concluded that he would become a medical doctor a light bulb moment came late in high school as he was watching a CBS 60 Minutes feature on tissue engineering.
“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.”
Almost two years ago when COVID-19 became a reality in Guyana and schools were shut, Monix Hetemeyer, a teacher, saw how students around her were suffering and with the support of other like-minded colleagues, she started an online platform – Teachers’ Initiative Online Programme – to assist in teaching students who were not being engaged at the time.
“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.
Ensuring that people focus on wellbeing and self-care is part of what keeps counsellor Michelle Amsterdam going as she aims to remain in the psychology field for the rest of her life.
“I still don’t understand why we pressure ourselves in these times.
What started out as a volunteer post in the office of a commissioner of the Miami-Dade County over 30 years ago, evolved into a full-time job for a young Christine King as she assisted in ensuring that the commissioner served the community that elected him.
Boys are made vulnerable to sexual abuse due to lack of care within a culture that accepts and allows relaxed supervision for them, a recent study commissioned by ChildLink has concluded.
“I just want them to come out of my house. When they are there I have no peace.
The family of an 18-year-old girl who recently took her own life are blaming officers at the Cove and John Police Station for her drastic action because of the way they handled her allegation of rape against a taxi driver.
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