“I have been living 22 years with HIV and if you look at me you cannot tell but I would not tell any and everybody that I have HIV because the stigma and discrimination is not nice and so I just trying to live my life,” the 46-year-old mother of six told me.
Dear Minerva, My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years.
The rainy season is here once again in the 592. And with it has come the common cold and the flu.
2019 has almost come to an end and the usual hustle bustle of the holiday season has begun.
Global malaria eradication efforts should focus on children and pregnant women to fight the most persistent pockets of the disease, a World Health Organization (WHO) report has urged.
GTT’s Anthony Drayton avenged a recent defeat by Wendell Meusa to take the Berbice Chess Association’s one-day, rapid chess tournament last Sunday.
Last Update: 591.91 Movement: 0.89% Current Update” 597.91 YTD Movement: 15.99% LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.89 percent during the first period of trading in December 2019.
Introduction At the start of 2019, I had set about the long task of portraying for this series of columns the systematic delineation of a strategic road map for both the “getting and spending” of Guyana’s expected Government Take, arising from its fast-emerging oil and gas sector.
Sugar Sugar workers in countrywide strike for pay hikes: Over 3,000 sugar workers across the country began a strike last week for increased wages, which they have not been granted over the past five years as a result of what they believe is clear discrimination.
With the Conservative Party polling at 42 per cent and the Labour Party at 32 per cent, the results on December 12 appear to be a likely Conservative Party victory.
By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?
Sometimes things seem to happen in pairs. Right now, for instance, we are going through a tempestuous time in Guyana with a range of voices and concerns connected with the country’s looming development as a producer of oil, with the back and forth an almost daily experience.
What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you have but may be too shy to ask.
“Knives Out” and “Queen & Slim”, two American films that opened in the U.S.
At 21, Michelle (not her real name) is HIV positive but she has kept her diagnosis a secret from her family.
“Stigma and discrimination is still a big, big thing in Guyana and because of that people don’t want to say that they HIV positive.
After becoming a full-time artist, Nigel Butler encountered a major problem familiar to many in his field.
In very recent history Guyana has developed distinct advantages in the field of culture and the arts.
Just over 31 miles from the city on the East Coast Demerara, and bordered by Zealand and Cottage, is a community called Planters Hall where the people live up to the name.
Protein is a macronutrient (nutrients we need in large quantities) that is chemically composed of amino acids.
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