Stabroek Weekend

How many dead women will it take before we recognise intimate partner violence as an actual pandemic?

When the now fledgling Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guyana (WCCIG) was launched, its recently elected president Rowena Elliot was skeptical.

By Onicka Jones After her own escape from years of domestic violence, during which she felt like a prisoner in her own home, Patricia Smithet says shelter services are needed across the country to help women who have nowhere to go after reporting incidents of abuse.

What started out as a volunteer post in the office of a commissioner of the Miami-Dade County over 30 years ago, evolved into a full-time job for a young Christine King as she assisted in ensuring that the commissioner served the community that elected him.

Dr. Baytoram Ramharack is a leading protagonist of the view, held by a section of educated Indian Guyanese opinion, that Cheddi Jagan was a plantation idiot.

I remember long ago saying to that intelligent human being, Winnie Gaskin, that I wasn’t really interested in politics, that I grew bored by its complexities, that I loathed its sour and unbrotherly antagonisms, that I had better things to do than get mixed up in all the unsavoury maneuverings that went into lusting after political power. 

Introduction Today’s column considers the Buxton Proposal as it relates to the United Nations undertaking to pursue sustainable development via a partnership among its Member Countries.

As a young man, my roots were almost totally Guyana, with a large slice of Trinidad when I started the Tradewinds band in Toronto where I had migrated and hooked up with a wash of Trinis living in that city.

After a decade of selling cassareep at Stabroek Market every Christmas, Kelvin and Anessa Forde launched their business Anessa’s and Kelvin’s Taste and today Kelvin’s Taste cassareep, green seasoning and pepper sauce is widely available.

Caribbean History                             A flower falls on a leaf, the forest sleeps, and waves are on holiday El Dorado sings of love as Columbus listens in a plastic boat.

“I just want them to come out of my house. When they are there I have no peace.

If you can’t tell just by looking at the calendar, the traffic makes it evident that it’s December and Christmas is right around the corner.

Last Update: 1,004.435                                  Movement: 0.369% Current Update: 1,008.14                              YTD Movement: 45.71%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index increased 0.369% during the final period of trading in November 2021.

It’s the second Christmas holiday in the midst of a pandemic.

Contrary to popular belief, Black people don’t like to constantly talk about race.

Early in “The Power of the Dog”, a character tearfully confesses to another, “I just wanted to say how nice it is not to be alone.”

Regaled by his maternal grandmother about the exploits of lawyers at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate Court, a young Jensen Samaroo was so intrigued not just by the stories but the obvious admiration she had for lawyers that he resolved in his heart to become a legal luminary she would be proud of.

Thirty-eight years ago, former diver Dion De Souza and a ‘sailor’ were lost in the forested and wet highlands of the Cuyuni/Mazaruni region without food and shelter.

After years of trying, La Trisha Layne got pregnant and had just begun looking forward to motherhood when 12 weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage and soon found that there was no support for the crippling grief she endured.

When Niomi Bhimsain started Yummybites.gy, she had no idea what was in store for her but she was confident that her love for creating desserts and her need to generate an income would help her to push through despite the ongoing pandemic.