Oluatoyin Alleyne

He does not remember but his grandmother told him that he was three years old when he first announced that he wanted to be a doctor.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge in every sphere of life and the over 1,900 students and staff members of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) were not spared.

“It is not that I don’t love my mother. I do feel something because if she calls right now I would drop what I am doing and go and help.

As a teacher for ten years, Jamain Hatton has seen his students at some of the highest and lowest points in their lives and he has always pushed them toward the path of success.

“I just wanted you out there to know if you are stepmother or a stepfather, sometimes you would try to protect that child, but you should only protect that child from their biological mother or biological father [if he/she] is a threat, if that mother is an abusive mother or that father is an abusive father…” These were the words of a young woman who posted a video on Facebook where she spoke about growing up without her mother and how difficult it was being denied knowing her mother as a child.

Living in a depressed community for the last eight years, Odessa Primus has seen poverty in all forms and witnessed its negative impacts.

“I used to get licks for tea, breakfast and dinner. You think is two cents I went through in this life?

One of the biggest fallouts from the COVID-19 pandemic is the children who will drop out of the formal school system without completing their education.

“Looking back now, I don’t know if I should have done it because I am now burdened with this thing.

With remote learning being forced upon parents throughout the world because of the novel coronavirus, many are still adjusting to their new roles in the education of their children.

Once a pastor’s wife, Carlotta Boodie is well aware of how rampant domestic violence is in the faith-based community and of the fact that many times victims are not given the support they need.

“I don’t have no more fight in me. Before, I felt like I was going to die.

Anjalena Beshpatty knew something was different about her son when he was just a few months old as little Sameir never smiled or cried.

I recently witnessed a horrifying incident at the Awen (8) Supermarket, which is located on the Railway Embankment in the community of Enmore.

As a teenager, Tinishe Bourne failed almost every class in secondary school and after a while she had enough and decided to quit in form four—she was 19 years old.

“I was on my back step teaching my son when he turn to me and say, ‘Mommy look some children hiding in the bush.’

When Ovid Williams gained a place at Queen’s College, English was his second language and the communication barrier and home isolation saw him turning to the guitar, which resulted in him becoming one of Guyana’s well-known and accomplished musicians.

“All this time I was with an idiot and sometimes I feel that way about myself too because look how long I have been with him and now I have four children, four daughters, and I have to move on.

“With this period, only the fittest will survive. As harsh as it might sound, that is just the way it is.

“I help out because there comes a time when we all need help and I am just doing my part even though I must tell you it is very hard, but I try,” she said almost breathlessly.