Oluatoyin Alleyne

“The rain wet me through and through. You see, I had to take off me socks today.

In the quiet village of Wakenaam many, many years ago, two teachers gave their eleven-year-old son a book as a birthday gift.

“I was molested when I was 12 years old and you know what was the worst part of it?

Emile Mervin was at work on the evening of April 4th, when he realised that something was wrong.

A 25-year-old mother of three is seeking answers from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where doctors performed an emergency operation on her after she visited to have an Intrauterine device (IUD) removed.

When Sally Persaud learnt she had cervical cancer she immediately remembered her daughter Stephanie, who had died from ovarian cancer several years before and she believed that would have been her fate as well.

“I am kind of scared and everybody like me, you know they scared.

A child alone with an alcoholic parent, a ‘little old lady’ who just wanted something to eat and pensioner who wanted assistance in accessing her diabetes medication were among the over 200 calls received by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) for the month of April.

“I really don’t know what will happen when all of this is over.

There are some unsung heroes who we see every day but often do not recognize them for who they are.

“I am now getting the hang of it, but I can tell you this is the new me, the planting.

“From since I was a little girl, I always know myself to be depressed.

One day after he was given the all clear to leave isolation following his negative Covid-19 result, businessman Sean Ramrattan opted to donate his plasma to help “persons in worst case scenarios.

“This will force me to close down. I can’t continue. I will have to move and open somewhere else where I don’t have to pay rent because right now to be honest, I can’t afford to pay the rent,” said a single mother who operates a hairdressing salon.

“This thing really bothering me because dem children just deh home whole day and I not there to see what dem doing.

Baldeo Singh and Anish Bhagwandeen are soldiers and they are actively involved in fighting a war for Guyana.

When Nurse Shelly Hinds now enters a minibus in her uniform, other commuters immediately shift to the other side of the seat.

Women’s rights activist Danuta Radzik has called on the government to heed the very recent calls of Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres to increase funding for non-government organisations (NGOs) so they can continue to offer their specialized services and expertise in sexual and gender-based violence especially in light of the COVID-19 lockdowns that are occurring worldwide.

Ornetta Waldron has always loved plants but it is only in recent years that she started a very intimate relationship with them that has now moved from providing a therapeutic outlet for her into a business.

“It is not that I am not taking this thing seriously but what people want me to do?