Oluatoyin Alleyne

At ten years old little Sasha Davi Bharrat’s only wish is to “get an education,” but she is prevented from doing so because she suffers from a rare condition that speeds her skin cell turnover, causing the top layer to shed six times faster than in a normal person.

After 46 years in the aviation industry, George Alleyne, now 72, says if he had to do it all over again he would do the same thing with no hesitation.

A 21-year-old trafficking in persons complainant has been removed from her home, putting the case against the accused at risk, and the young woman’s grandmother is afraid that she and her 17-month-old daughter could come to harm.

The 15-year-old girl, who was rescued from an interior location earlier this year where she was being forced to work as a sex worker, is yet to be assisted by the state agency and while she accused officials of being unhelpful she in turn has been accused of having a bad attitude.

After six years of “running back and forth”, 38-year-old Raja Singh says he is anxiously awaiting a call from the Ministry of Education that would inform him when he can collect the $130,000 owed to him for the weeding he has done at three Georgetown schools since December 2007.

“Look, I move from pillar to post in this life,” the words of a teenager who only recently celebrated her 15th birthday, but who in her relatively short time on this earth has had horrible and traumatic life experiences.

In December 2001 Vincent Griffith then 12 years old was shot in his left leg by police as he hid in a wardrobe in what was said to have been an abandoned house in New Amsterdam.

After years of practising lab science the former country lab director Yvette Irving has opened her own laboratory as she sees the needs for lab results in Guyana to be on par with those in other countries.

Maybe it was the ‘rebel’ inside of young Williette Alleyne who wanted complete freedom to choose a career path, but she would prefer to tell you that she was inspired by a speech by the late President Forbes Burnham to move into the aviation field.

The family of Christine Dutchin, the young mother who recently died weeks after delivering a dead full-term foetus via C-section, is accusing the Georgetown Public Hospital of not giving her proper care and contributing to the deterioration of her health after she opted for discharge.

The fact that St Cuthbert’s (Pakuri) is just a few hours’ drive from the capital may be responsible for the village losing some of its cultural identity and heritage, but there are still those who are striving to ensure that that next generation knows what it means to be an Arawak Amerindian.

After spending thirty-six years in the teaching profession, more than half of which was spent teaching the blind, Ingrid Peters is distressed about the education afforded to children who are blind and is strongly advocating that a special school for them be established.

At age 14 Jenny (not her real name) was removed from the place she called home where she lived under horrific conditions.

As a child Mosa Telford struggled with the colour of her skin since  her dark complexion resulted in her peers teasing her mercilessly and she never felt that she was good enough.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday rescued two women—including a Trinidad national—from the 14 Miles Backdam, in Region Seven, where they were being held against their will by a shop owner.

The Coalition for the 1823 Parade Ground Monument yesterday held a ‘Remembrance Walk/ Freedom Walk’ in honour of the 1823 martyrs from Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara as the group signalled its determination to build a monument to the martyrs at Parade Ground.

Spots of blood still stain the Diamond, East Bank Deme-rara home where seventeen-year-old Angela McAllister was slaughtered last Thursday with a cutlass and spade by her boyfriend.

Diagnosed with rheumatic fever at the age of three, Tiffany Ward lost mobility in her legs when she was just fifteen, forcing her to leave school in the fourth form because of the excruciating pain she had been enduring for months.

Forty-six-year-old Roxanne Alkins, up until recently a cook in a Puruni Backdam mining camp, is seeking justice after she was assaulted by a co-worker whose sexual advances she turned down.

Forty-year-old Marilyn Severin attempted to abort her baby three times by using the drug Cytotec and it was only on the third attempt when she was more than six months pregnant that the baby boy was expelled.