One of the most callous things we can do to a person who has come forward with allegations of abuse is to dissect the truthfulness of their story solely based on our relationship with the abuser or people closely connected to the abuser.
The deaths of two of his beloved singers due to their addiction of drugs is what drove an adult Shirvington Hannays to become a clinical supervisor, addiction counsellor and TeleHealth mental health professional, but he took this route also when he was at the lowest point in his life and was on the verge of ending it.
At 26 and the mother of a 15-month-old baby, Nadine Jalil-Rahat has not experienced any form of abuse, but she has seen and heard enough to take action.
Bless her heart, my late Mother would buy all sorts of chocolate eggs for us at Easter; small ones filled with white chocolate and a yellow-dyed colouring for the yolk and large ones with little chocolate eggs inside.
By Baytoram Ramharack Ramesh Gampat, Essays: Guyana – Economics, Politics and Democracy [Bloomington, Indiana, Xlibris, 2022, 635 pages].
The fundamental objective of a political party is to gain political office and implement its policies for the benefit of the country.
When I am in any great city I search out the bookstores and in them spend what are hours of pure pleasure.
The professional musician’s life has many attendant aspects, other than the activity itself, so that any successful Caribbean musician will tell you that one of the problems is dealing with hecklers who consider themselves comedians and will shout stuff at you from the crowd, very loud.
Introduction Today’s column addresses the second and third focus areas of my present critique of ExxonMobil.
Ash Wednesday -1 Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)
During last week the public at large viewed a shocking video of a young woman being viciously abused.
Three releases currently in cinema, Michael Bay’s “Ambulance”, Ruben Fleischer’s video-game adaptation “Uncharted”, and Daniel Espinosa’s comic-book adaptation “Morbius” offer divergent (and sometimes convergent) approaches to what blockbuster filmmaking looks like in 2022.
It is true that chess is considered an elitist game and only the great schools of a nation teach and play it.
Last Update: 1,7828.998 Movement: 0.751% Current Update: 1,796.391 YTD Movement: 74.611%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 0.751% during the second period of trading in April, 2022.
As a child, Vidya Ketwaroo was a regular visitor to the hospital because of illness and it was there she fell in love with the nurse’s uniform and knew one day it would be hers to wear.
From a school dropout to a representative of the people, Charlene Garraway, 55, took menial jobs to earn a living for herself and two daughters before returning to school at age 37 to complete her secondary education.
By Nikita Blair April finds me in a mischievous mood, the joyful memories of Easters past working their way around my subconscious.
“Every month is a different story. Some months there is nothing and some other months it is not even half of what is supposed to be there.
A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in the latest issue of Poetry Review or The New Yorker or some other magazine or at least before my eyes shut glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.
“Only the best will represent Guyana at the Chess Olympiad in July,” says Loris Nathoo, a director of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF).
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