Oluatoyin Alleyne

Sandra Granger is still getting used to being a politician’s wife but she firmly believes that her husband is the man to take the country forward, as he cares for the ordinary; she points out that there is so much wrong with the country and that those bearing the brunt of it are the young and the elderly.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne Photos by Arian Browne Describing his years in office as “very trying”, President Donald Ramotar last evening promised to focus on education, the sugar and rice industries, the housing sector and to improve security should the PPP/C be returned to power come May 11th.

The 14-year-old who was allegedly prostituted by her mother is now serving two years in the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) after being sentenced by a magistrate for escaping from the Child Care & Protection Agency, shortly after she was removed from her mother’s home.

As a ten-year-old growing up in a segregated United States of America, Rev Ken Steigler remembered being taught to treat everyone with respect and it was there that the seed of equality and justice for all was planted, which later saw him actively participating in the struggle led by the late civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.

Eleven years ago, a young woman journeyed from Mexico to Guyana to determine the feasibility of opening an office for the business process outsourcing company with which she worked.

– says PPP/C has taken Guyana to a higher level   Defending the policies of the PPP/C administration, the party’s prime ministerial candidate for the May 11 polls, Elisabeth Harper says that she would contribute her expertise should the party be returned to power while brushing aside corruption allegations against the government.

When Elisabeth Harper was announced as the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial candidate recently the question many Guyanese asked was: “Who is she?”

She was sitting in her parked car one day when she suddenly realised that she could not move.

One woman related how she watched her sister suffer at the hands of a cruel fiancé, another spoke of how she endured years of abuse by a narcissistic husband who took her children in the end and another about how she watched her mother being tormented in the most horrifying ways for 14 years.

Even after repeated recommendations were made for the Ministry of Youth to launch an investigation into the operations of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) the status quo remains and young girls and boys continue to suffer in an institution that is supposed to rehabilitate   them, APNU member Christopher Jones has said.

For most of her childhood she watched her mother being battered by her stepfather in alcohol-fuelled episodes which saw frequent visits by the police to her home and made her childhood a never-ending cycle of violence.

The Cummingsburg Accord which saw APNU and the AFC coalescing offers the best chance for a national unity government, presidential candidate of the grouping David Granger said in an interview with Sunday Stabroek during which he restated that his party has nothing to apologise for over the 1968 to 1985 elections it was accused of rigging.

She has been accused of prostituting her daughter and is now facing a trafficking in persons (TIP) charge but a 38-year-old mother of six vehemently denies the claim saying that she is a victim of circumstances but admits that she can no longer “control” her teenage daughter.

Learning that your four-year-old angel has been sexually molested is a nightmare for any parent but when the molester is your spouse and the father of the child your world collapses around you and it becomes a fight to move from one day to another.

A mother waits outside a kayamoo—a crudely-built hut used for prostitution in the interior—as her young daughter is being raped inside; afterwards the mother accepts payment from the perpetrator, who slips away into the darkness of night.

Another stalemate in the National Assembly with no party gaining the majority of seats is the best outcome at the upcoming May 11 poll, as this would force the politicians to come together and talk, according to Dr Joey Jagan, son of the PPP’s founder the late president Cheddi Jagan.

A mother is questioning the length of time the police at La Grange Police Station are taking to investigate the alleged rape of her 12-year-old daughter, while fearing that the suspect has used the delay to flee.

His mother was and remains his life’s anchor; his six sisters and many other women who “guided and nurtured him with kindness and lots of love” to make him evolve into a human being who people are proud to be associated with, have Selwyn Collins’s eternal gratitude.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Presi-dent Donald Ramotar yesterday called on the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to act professionally at the upcoming May 11th polls and to stay away from politics even as he expressed confidence that the PPP/C would be returned to power and this time with a majority in the National Assembly.

Acting Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud today vigorously defended the promotion of the two police officers who tortured a teen boy, saying the ranks were exonerated and that “life must go on.”