Depression is a serious illness that occurs in both the old and the young, but sadly it is an issue that is still taboo barring many from even attempting to discuss it, much less admitting that they might have a problem.
Sixty-one-year-old Lucille Posey has never owned a house but the Atlanta, USA grandmother would soon know what it feels like to be a home owner when she moves into her spanking new three-bedroom quarters, compliments of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity.
In downtown Atlanta, a casually dressed young woman with an impeccable hairstyle sits in an office chair filling out a form, the first step that would eventually see her transformed for the world of work.
Caribbean countries do not have the capacity to deal with the organised crime “that has crept into their societies…,” Organisation of American States (OAS) official Yasmin Solitahe Odlum, has said.
Fifty-three-year-old Ann Charles has been a miner for almost 30 years and for many of those years she has carried a heavy burden, one which grew heavier as the years went by.
At 72, Guyana’s best known panist Roy Geddes is still as passionate about steel pan music as he was when he was just 14 years old and developed a liking for the music form that originated in Trinidad & Tobago.
After 25 years, Dr Faith Harding has resigned from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) central executive, saying that the party has sidelined her.
This is the eighth in our series on new parliamentarians Essequibian Cornell Damon has been a member of the PPP/C for over two decades and he says he would use his new appointment as a member of the National Assembly to continue the work of the party and represent the people of Region Two.
There is a call for more to be done to help families first of all accept that a loved one is HIV positive and secondly and most important, to give the infected person the support they need.
One only has to listen to the jazzy performances of “Bounce It” or “Let’s Speak Latin” or the Beyonce hit “If I Were A Boy” by Derry Etkins’ students in the St George’s Muzik Lab to know that he is passionate both about music and about teaching it.
For five months she watched a woman being verbally and physically abused by her partner at a mining camp and one day she could take it no more.
AH&L Kissoon is one of the oldest furniture businesses in Guyana and while today it is much smaller than it was in its heyday it is still one of those most trusted by customers.
This is the seventh in our series on new parliamentarians The scrutiny of government contracts awarded to Region One will be high on the agenda of A Partnership of National Unity (APNU), new parliamentarian Richard Allen said, because for too long contractors have been allowed to get away with shoddy work.
President Donald Ramotar, in his inaugural speech to the 10th Parliament, yesterday said that his administration is willing to “exercise patience, forbearance, and reasonableness in the interest of all of our people” but warned it would not be held ransom to “intractable postures”.
Valerie Garrido-Lowe may be a new face in the National Assembly but she is certainly not new to the world of politics, and her experience in the last few months has only served to strengthen her resolve to fight for equal rights and justice for the down trodden, she says.
Astute management under difficult conditions, as well as projecting where the company should be going have kept Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL) in the competitive lane, so that it moved from being a single company to becoming a conglomerate and one of best known businesses in Guyana.
From the tender age of eight United Kingdom-based musician Wayne Nunes was being paid for his musical talent as a vocalist and while today he is no longer a singer, music is still his chosen profession.
This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to
Director of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Dr Shanti Singh has described a recent study which found that existing programmes in Guyana for men who have sex with men (MSM) are small scale as not being “entirely true.”
The burning desire to create an avenue for Guyanese women to unite and work together in addressing the many ills that affect them is behind newspaper columnist Stella Ramsaroop’s move
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