Almost 174 years ago eighty-three men and women who had been freed from slavery paid the price of 30,000 guilders for what was then known as plantation Northbrook, a cotton plantation of about 500 acres, and today that plantation is known as the village of Victoria, fondly referred to as the ‘first village.’
The Museum of African Heritage for years has been working to keep the rich cultural history of Africans alive and administrator Jenny Daly said that the museum is not just a treasure chest of African art but is also active in revitalizing African folklore groups around the country.
Thirty-seven years ago Beverley Drake fulfilled her father’s dream as much as her own, and as he watched his daughter become one of Guyana’s first military pilots, his facial expression reflected his pride and joy.
The government yesterday shelved its parliamentary business after a failed bid to force an adjournment of the National Assembly’s sitting to win consensus with the opposition on the contentious Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.
At least one of the females rescued from 14 Miles, Region 7 last weekend was already known to the system as she had been removed from her mother’s home and placed in a state shelter before being returned by the authorities.
Growing up in a tenement yard, Basil Gibbons would have had direct knowledge of broken families and would have seen how the absence of opportunities denied the young the possibility of developing their potential.
Since 2009 a mother has been struggling with her mentally ill son who had a promising future, but she has been frustrated by the system.
Even though the Guyana Police Force has declared “zero tolerance” for domestic violence the treatment meted out to victims of physical and sexual violence at some police stations has left a lot to be desired.
A group has taken up the challenge of returning Festival City to its glory days with the ultimate aim of making it self-sustainable.
Sunday Stabroek speaks to two psychiatrists There are a growing number of persons with obvious signs of mental illness on the streets and there have been many calls for the government to address this problem more especially in the light of some recent cases where persons were attacked by the mentally disturbed.
After twenty-one years in the US Mia Ritchie returned to live in Guyana and soon realized that something was seriously amiss with the manner in which employees communicated with customers.
At 22 Shelly (not her real name) has had to face many difficulties, but even after becoming a teenage mother, being disowned by her own mother, and losing a child under tragic circumstances, she has never given up.
When Jerimiah Williams left the David Rose School for children with special needs he was employed at a supermarket as a bag-packer, even though there were obvious signs that he was an intelligent young man who could achieve much more.
One day Karen (not her real name) was making a reasonable living as a gold miner.
The government yesterday failed to win opposition support for amendments to the Customs Act, despite its arguments that the failure to legislate the changes would expose the country to litigation and sanctions.
The Ministry of Human Services & Social Security, the Guyana Police Service, the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) collaborated early last week to remove a deaf and mute teenager from the No 58 Mabura, Region 10 area who is suspected of having been trafficked.
Women are now being offered the opportunity to celebrate their pregnancies in a “very artistic style” by having their enlarged tummies painted with a design of their choosing and then having photographs taken which they will have as keepsakes.
A 65-year-old woman had what she described as a “painful and bloody experience” when what should have been a simple procedure of removing an intrauterine device (IUD) at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) went horribly wrong after the doctor was forced to abandon the procedure because the hospital did not have the instrument needed to remove the device.
Locally-funded publishing house Caribbean Press is facing a serious human resource crisis as its current editor Professor David Dabydeen plans to take a back seat to focus on his own writing and his quest to find suitable candidates to take up the mantle has hit a brick wall.
Brutally raped and later sexually assaulted twice by different persons was three times too many for Simone Daniels.
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