Women’s Chronicles

“The first time she run away it was like my whole heart did get cut out.

“I happy fuh school to open. I know it guh be a lil hard because now you have to think about putting things in the lunch kit when before you know wah ever lil you get you just cook and left fuh them.

During last week the public at large viewed a shocking video of a young woman being viciously abused.

“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.

This week, a sister walks us through the process of her divorce and filing for child support.

“It is really heartbreaking. Sometimes you are feeling that you are the only one facing this and the court is being unfair and you are being treated terribly but there are so many other women who are going through the same thing.

Last Monday, a beautiful life ended tragically. Trudy De Haarte was more than the woman who walked in the Brickdam Police Station and ended her life with the stun gun she had used when rescuing countless dogs and other animals; she had a passion for this work.

“At times I sit down, and I cry because I don’t know what else to do.

A sister recently went through a divorce. Below she writes about part of the experience and also gives some sound advice.

Depression and anxiety are mental health problems, but people are often afraid to admit that they are struggling with these complaints because they are ashamed or do not want to be labelled as mad.

“I ain’t know dey say I is a senior citizen but I sure nuff a dem young boys does break long before me,” the sleazy words of a man reached my ear.

“My story starts with fibroids and I wouldn’t forget the gynaecologist who for almost ten years told me that I was infertile, and I would never be able to have a baby.”

“I looked at her and she was the most beautiful thing I have seen.

“Sometimes I think about them every day. Like how they would look now and, you know, how they would behave and I does cry up to now, by myself in the night I would just cry sometimes.”

“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.

“I still don’t understand why we pressure ourselves in these times.

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

Almost three years after her home’s completion, a single mother is unable to move into it because of a mix up with measurement of her land, preventing her from building a fence around her home as she would be doing so on her neighbour’s land.

Last Sunday four-year-old Kiana Amaya Niles lost her almost one year battle with brain cancer when she took her final breath in the paediatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) surrounded by her mom and other relatives.

“It is hard to find a place to rent in this country when you single and have children.