Oluatoyin Alleyne

Unfortunate circumstances forced state officials to remove two little girls from the only places they called home, and now they are living as sisters with another mother whose only wish is to make this Christmas a memorable one for them.

Work on local government reform legislation—expected to lay the foundations for the holding of polls due since 1997—has hit another roadblock as the government and opposition are at an impasse on which side should chair the parliamentary committee that has been set up to drive the process forward.

Benny Wenda has horrible memories of his childhood days in West Papua and relates chilling stories of his village being bombed by the Indonesian military and watching his female relatives being raped in front of his eyes.

Former Leader of the Opposition and the PNCR Robert Corbin has said that Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee was symbolic of the security sector’s inability to perform and he should take responsibility for this.

Too many women and children continue to die and this signals that something is systemically wrong with the country’s health system, says new head of the Medical Council of Guyana Dr Vivienne Mitchell-Amata, who said the answer lies in improving the competence of our medical practitioners.

Indranie Sugrim managed to dial the mobile phone of her 11-year-old daughter yesterday morning moments before she was brutally knifed to death in her Cummings Lodge home, allegedly by the man she had shared an on-and-off relationship with for the past five years.

Yvette Archer-Alexander, the headmistress of the St Ignatius Secondary School in Region Nine has withdrawn her resignation following an intervention by Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam which will see the temporary transfer of a troublesome teacher to the Department of Education in Region 9.

Newly appointed judge Sandra Kertzious practised as an attorney for years, but when she “fell in love“ with family law a more apt description would have been ‘counsellor,’ as she worked on mending the families of her clients.

A three-year-old boy is overheard speaking gibberish as he happily skips up the stairs of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in the company of his mother, who has a baby in her arms.

-as motion referred to Privileges Committee Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman last evening placed a partial gag on Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, pending the findings of the Privileges Committee on a motion brought by Opposition Leader David Granger to censor the minister.

—Coordinator In 1975 Aubrey left his homeland as a bright Guyana scholar and after he graduated with a degree in Business Economics and Informa-tion Systems from the University of San Francisco he easily found employment.

Twenty-four-year-old Kumarie Kooseram always aimed to do her best but she would also tell you that the tragic loss of her father when she was just 13 moved her to want to make him proud even though he was no longer around.

At age 14 Mahendra Sookraj started farming, and over the years it has been good to him.

Growing up Murphy Franklyn ‘limed’ in a shop that made shoes but it took a literal slap behind his head by the owner to propel him in the direction of learning the trade which later gave him  earning power.

-as parties draw lines on Rohee Speaker Raphael Trotman yesterday said that he acted in his own deliberate judgment when he adjourned Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly after opposition members chanted down Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, adding that only a “political neophyte” would suggest that he should have suspended the entire opposition.

-gov’t urges stronger action after Trotman adjournment Speaker Raphael Trotman prematurely adjourned yesterday’s sitting of the National Assembly after opposition members refused to allow Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee to speak in keeping with a no confidence motion passed against him, even as government accused them of trying to save face through bullyism.

Child labour in the Puruni Backdam A little boy is down in a mining pit working feverishly among adult men who are puffing their cigarettes and chatting among themselves, their conversations punctuated with profanities.

Years of mental and emotional abuse have served to make Karen Hall a stronger person but she said that without a mother and a grandmother who never saw her disability as a challenge she would not have been where she is today.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds accused the opposition parties of instigating the disturbances to destabilise the country and get into power yesterday, in the light of the recent protest in Agricola.

– puts exploiters on notice The Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation (GWMO) says it continues to see disturbing signs of human trafficking in gold mining areas and its president said that the organisation is in the process is compiling a report which it plans to release next year.