Oluatoyin Alleyne

Adrian McInman is a travelling psychologist who helps people to find “their happiness,” since according to him it is the one thing people want in their life more than anything else.

A 16-year-old girl, lured with promises of high-paying work in a shop in the interior of Region Seven, managed to escape a prostitution ring and her report to police later resulted in an arrest and the rescue of four other girls.

The state of the education system came under the magnifying glass yesterday in the House, where Education Minister Priya Manickchand sought to defend government’s progress in the face of criticism that despite the billions spent, the nation’s children are not benefitting.

Former Commissioner of Police, Winston Felix yesterday challenged Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee to present evidence that he has a radio belonging to the Guyana Police Force in his possession even as he accused the minister of continued political interference in the work of the force.

The ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has decided to ignore comments made by the daughter of the party’s founder members in which she urged the party to get back to being a “non-corruptible” party if it sincerely wanted to have Cheddi and Janet Jagan as its living guides as its leaders have proclaimed.

Guyana’s tourism industry is like a newborn babe compared to those of her Caribbean counterparts.

Perseverance, good business practices and a good product is what the proprietors credit for the Lyken Newburg Funeral Home still being in business nine decades after it opened.

The government has begun deliberations under Article 225 of the Constitution in relation to the ethical issue of Commissioner of Police Henry Greene’s admission that he had sexual relations with a witness in a matter under investigation, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Former Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand says Police Commissioner Henry Greene should go because of his improper behaviour in a case that has put him on the brink of a rape charge and she also expressed disquiet at the ruling of Chief Justice Ian Chang in the matter.

To effectively fight the scourge of domestic violence it must be treated and given the same attention HIV/AIDS has gotten, says Justice Roxanne George who has also called for a cost to be placed on this rising epidemic as has been done with the virus.

Known as one of the gateways to the interior, Itaballi Landing is a small mining and logging community perch-ed on the bank of the Essequibo River and a short boat ride from Bartica.

A well-known Guyanese educator and poet is advocating continual classroom training for teachers as a means of improving the country’s education system, since teachers are the foot soldiers of the system and if they are not good at what they do then the system will fail.

This is the thirteenth in our series on new parliamentarians Jaipaul Sharma is no politician and sees his work as a parliamentarian (MP) as a job which he plans to perform diligently to ensure that the people of the nation are represented and the government is held accountable.

A bail-out budget was how the opposition parties de-scribed the Donald Ramotar administration’s $192.8 billion budget yesterday and Opposition Leader David Granger said it lacks vision and does not cater to the needs of the poor.

Seven years after he left this country secretly, fearing for his life and under “tremendous stress”, former auditor general Anand Goolsarran has returned; he has no plans to return to his former position but wants to contribute to Guyana employing better accounting practices when dealing with taxpayers’ money.

Sydney Allicock – APNU This is the twelfth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian Sydney Allicock believes that the new dispensation in the National Assembly creates an avenue for politicians to “attack the issues rather than personalities and try to bring back that good name that Guyana really deserves.”

A lean clean government which is transparent in its actions and accountable to the nation is what new Alliance For Change (AFC) parliamentarian Dr Veerasammy Ramayya hopes the new dispensation in the National Assembly can achieve in the next five years.

Women of Itaballi Landing on the Essequibo River have appealed to the Guyana Women Miners Association (GWMA) to help to train young females in the community so they could find jobs and help others get ownership of their mining claims.

Women of Itaballi – a small mining and logging community on the Essequibo River – are calling on the authorities to take urgent measures to save the young girls of the village who they say are being sexually exploited by men including law enforcers.

It was the late Winston Murray who propelled attorney-at-law James Anthony Bond into the political arena and this new APNU parliamentarian is on a mission to work for and with the people to make Guyana a better place for all.