As countries around the world battle with the mental health fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, Guyana, according to Director of the Ministry of Public Health’s Mental Health Unit Dr Util Richmond-Thomas, has been able to grapple with this issue because there is a large ground force of trained personnel in primary care who know what to do with persons presenting mental health issues.
The COVID-19 lockdowns across the world have changed people’s lives in many ways, including the way in which they exercise.
Looking good, getting strong, and enhancing performance are just a few reasons why people go to the gym.
After months of being indoors, people have found unhealthy ways of coping, like consuming excessive amounts of alcohol.
Guyana opposed nine countries on Friday, Saturday and today for the start of the online 2020 Chess Olympiad.
Introduction In recommending the establishment of a National Oil Company (NOC) in Guyana by the next decade, I am also explicitly rejecting any notion of twinning this policy recommendation with the establishment of a state-owned (or joint venture, state-private) downstream “oil” refinery.
Slavery of African people in the era of colonialism was the worst and most enduring holocaust in recorded human history.
Any writer of a regular column will tell you of the variety of items that you put away, intended for another day.
“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world.
LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 1.04% during what would normally be the fifth period of trading in July 2020.
I am hungry and I want to come home to Guyana to eat.
With every passing day, I try to reflect on my blessings and privileges.
When he began his ‘Letter of the Day’ series on social media application Tik Tok, Guyanese Kwame Simpson, known as ‘Wello’ and ‘Raga Rebel,’ didn’t expect much to come from it.
By Patrick George “Shut yuh damn mouth, yuh late!” Hot words cutting through the silence of a cool morning, only just rising from slumber to meet the new day.
Patrick George is a published writer and poet whose short stories and poems have been featured in the Guyana Annual and the Anthology of Contemporary Guyanese Verse.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, juveniles in the national holding centre are still accessing the justice system remotely.
The year 2020 will be one that goes down in history for current global pandemic and how drastically many of our lives have changed as a result of it.
By Alim Hosein The loss of four artists in short succession has been a great blow to Guyana, an axe to the root of its art, given this country’s tiny population, and the small number of persons engaged in art.
There is scene that comes a little over halfway into “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”, where director/writer Eliza Hittman reveals the meaning and value of the film’s title in one of the most searing moments in cinema of 2020.
“I really can’t take this thing. Is like I sick and all and should take a bed in the hospital.
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