Universal secondary education is expected to be a reality in Guyana in another three years according to Chief Education Officer (CEdO) Olato Sam, who however admitted that the Ministry of Education would at no time be able to say that every child was enrolled in a secondary school owing to what he described as the country’s “geographical reality.”
Eve Ensler is a woman driven by the pain she sees her sisters across the globe suffer and while she will not be able to purge the world of violence against women and children in her lifetime her work is nevertheless making an impact, including through raising funds to assist those in need.
The police have said they have launched no investigation into a rape allegation by a young Amerindian woman who says that she was drugged and raped recently in Mahdia but instead are investigating assault causing actually bodily harm.
The staff at the New Opportunity Corp (NOC) are believed to have colluded to stonewall the police investigation into sexual and physical abuse claims by former residents of the institution.
The staff at the New Opportunity Corp (NOC) are believed to have colluded to stonewall the police investigation into sexual and physical abuse claims by former residents of the institution.
Every morning she wakes at 4am and starts her day, her morning centred on sending her three children to school.
Sabanto Tokoroho was a small girl scared out of her wits when she moved from Kabakaburi in Pomeroon to attend school in Georgetown, and the constant teasing and sometimes cruel taunts from her schoolmates about her Amerindian heritage did not help.
Preliminary reports have indicated that Evita Singh, the mother who recently died days after she delivered a stillborn baby by caesarian-section at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), succumbed as a result of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), a rare, life-threatening condition that prevents blood from clotting normally.
A motorcycle race involving two young men ended tragically on Saturday night when one died and the other was seriously injured after they collided with a parked car at Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara (WBD).
The care of a seven-month-old baby is now at the centre of a dispute between a young mother and the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA), which she is accusing of seeking to take the child away from her.
Although Roger John has been disabled for the past 27 years he still has dreams of using his feet again as he prepares to enter a new phase of life and hopefully achieve the financial security that he craves.
Mayor Hamilton Green and city councillors yesterday alleged that acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba told an early morning committee meeting that all local government bodies across the country had been dissolved—a claim that Sooba later denied while accusing the council of being “mischievous.”
She was just into her teenage years but Amanda (not her real name) had the freedom to do as she pleased just like any adult.
Neglect was the reason why Talesha (not her real name) was taken into state care at the age of 15, but for her it is the best thing that has happened to her.
Imagine waking up one day to total darkness and hours later you are told that you are blind forever.
That old barge is still here and it does not look any different, but thick bush has completely changed the appearance of school building.
The dismal performance of nursing students at their final examination is a result of the large numbers being taken into the programme, stretching the small teaching staff and creating a situation where trainee nurses are not adequately supervised on the wards.
Eleven-year-old Jeremiah Bentham describes his mother as a “pusher” without whom he could not have done so extraordinarily well at the recently completed Grade Six Assessment.
Jaime Skeete was born with a disability that saw him spending more time in the hospital than he did in school when he was a boy, but even with that challenge he not only excelled academically but by virtue of his determination he became a swimming coach at one of the better known swimming clubs in Guyana.
Criminal charges are likely to be laid against four staff members of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at the centre of physical and sexual abuse allegations made by four girls who were removed from the institution by the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA).
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