Oluatoyin Alleyne

As a child Sade Richardson always knew there was something different about her and it took her years before she realized that she was a female in a male body.

The University of Guyana (UG) in another three years will have a criminologist for the first time in a decade, when lecturer and sociologist Andrew Hicks returns to the institution on completion of his PhD in criminology and criminal justice.

She is surrounded by a group of women who are putting food into boxes on a table.

A small section of the Demerara Harbour Bridge sank yesterday morning, forcing its closure for emergency works and limiting travel between regions Three and Four, especially for commuters who were faced with severe hardship.

The relatives of an unruly thirteen-year-old girl are uncertain about their next move since more than two years of intervention have not succeeded in persuading her to abandon a self-destructive path.

Three little boys sit gingerly on a sofa and survey the strange environment.

Although finding that the National Assembly did not have the power to cut the budget, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday said in an interim ruling that the court could not restore the funding sought by government, except for allocations to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to perform its constitutional duties.

New Registrar of Deeds Azeema Baksh-Singh was appointed although she did not have the qualifications sought by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), in vacancy notices published in November of 2010.

New Registrar of Deeds Azeema Baksh-Singh was appointed although she did not have the qualifications sought by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), in vacancy notices published in November of 2010.

Career nurse Penelope Layne has been quietly leading an army of three at the Guyana Cancer Registry for the last twelve years.

A home in the small community of Hauraruni on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway provides a sanctuary for abused and abandoned young girls, and while reintegration with their families is the key aim some are allowed to remain after the stipulated 18 years if they have nowhere else to call home.

Team Guyana, which reported to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) last week in New York, was unhappy at the manner in which questions were posed by committee members and their reliance on “alternative sources” and the country will shortly lodge an official complaint.

The gold price has soared over the years and as a consequence mining contributes a huge chunk to the country’s economy, yet it remains one of the most vulnerable sectors as not a week goes by without a miner being murdered or dying in an accident.

Hours after she learnt that a young man she trusted but who sexually assaulted her had been jailed, a 23-year-old United King-dom woman was still in a state of disbelief because of the manner in which the Anna Regina police had blamed her instead of acknowledging she was the victim.

Six years after she had the horrific experience of being doused with a corrosive substance that has left her facially disfigured, 31-year-old Jo-Ann Lynch may soon get justice as the woman behind the attack is believed to have been nabbed in neighbouring Trinidad.

Easter Monday last year was a day that changed 31-year-old Niveta Deen’s life when a family outing at a creek on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway turned ugly when she was hit by a car as she attempted to cross the road.

Less than a year ago thirty-six-year-old Andrea Murray was dumped by the father of her two youngest children via a phone call, and with a view to making herself financially independent she decided to travel into the interior to work as a cook.

A multi-sectoral ap-proach is needed if Guyana is to effectively address the frightening rise in domestic violence, according to sociologist and University of Guyana (UG) lecturer Andrew Hicks, who said there is a role for educators, government, police, prison, courts, churches and the community at large in this important fight.

The board of the National Communications Network (NCN) has launched an investigation into suspected financial irregularities at the network and the company’s programme manager, Martin Goolsarran has been sent on administrative leave in relation to a $3.9M cheque made payable to him by a major advertiser.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday criticised the PPP/C administration’s move to the High Court over the opposition budget cuts, warning that the continued resort to legal action over parliamentary decisions signals the danger of a constitutional crisis of unimagined proportions.