GEPAN Georgetown 141 Guyanese survivors and victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) opened up to share their experiences through a survey launched by GEPAN, late 2018. The results were shocking. The majority of women had suffered multiple forms of abuse at different stages in their lives, including during Read more…
(Previous version published in journal The Thinker, Vol.2, January 2019, by Anna Correia de Sá) In recent years, Guyana gained notoriety for ranking among the top five countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, aquiring third place after Sri Lanka and Lithuania in 2017. According to the Small Read more…
Westbury is a small community juxtaposing Dartmouth, along the public road on the Essequibo Coast. Its residents are predominantly Guyanese of African descent, with a minority of East Indians, Amerindians and mixed. The poverty stricken community is a hub for drugs (mainly marijuana), and is affected by a high level Read more…
