Category: Features

“I loved dolls growing up and always had a thing for them. But sadly we could not have much time with dolls while growing up because we would have to do work and so on. So one day I decided to make a doll for myself and since then I have been a part of the fashion and craft world,” says Natasha David. Natasha is a 42-year-old mother of one. She was born in Georgetown but moved to Imbatero, Region 1 (Barima-Waini) where she spent the first 11 years of…

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Quite often we do not hear foreigners saying they are thankful for the opportunities offered by Guyana but for 16 year old Carlos Eduardo Ricci he will forever remain grateful for the opportunities he was afforded in Guyana. Carlos was born in Brazil to a Guyanese mother and Brazilian father. He spent the first five years of his life in Brazil and after his parents separated, he moved to Guyana with his mother. They made St Ignatius Village, Region 9 (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) their home and since then he has…

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By Lakhram Bhagirat “Getting to go back to school was really tough because I had my son and I had to divide my time between him and studying for exams. So when I saw that I did so good I was happy because it was really hard and the hard work and sacrifices did pay off,” says Viroshni Mithuram. Viroshni is 18 years old and sat the 2018 CSEC examinations where she gained passes in 10 subjects (4 Grade 1s and 6 Grade 2s). But Viroshni’s situation is different from…

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By Lakhram Bhagirat A mother always tries her best to let her children live the best life possible without revealing the struggles she goes through to give them that life, and that is exactly what Satram Mohamed’s mother did for him. For that, he says he owes every success in his life to her. Satram, a student of West Demerara Secondary School (WDSS), recently sat 15 subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council (CSEC) exam and gained Grades One to Three passes in all. His performance was so exceptional that…

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Leah Stephani Hernandez is a quiet 16-year-old from the village of Yarrowkabra located along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. She aspires to join the media fraternity where she plans to use her pen to highlight issues and tap into the power of the fourth estate to effect change and bring about awareness. Leah is currently a work study student with the Guyana Times. Leah recently sat the Caribbean Examination Council’s Secondary School Exams where she gained Grade One to Three passes in the 15 subjects she wrote. She explains to me that…

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by Petamber Persaud In her eighth book, Carmen Barclay Subryan has pushed the boundaries of her writing to another level after safely (writing about what she knows) and successfully canvassing through the genre of historical fiction mainly with her trilogy – Black- Water Woman, Black- Water People and Black- Water Children wherein she reconstructed the birth, boom and travails of the bauxite mining township of Linden, a history that is intricately interwoven with the history of her family, the Allicock family, by now trying her hand at auto fiction, sticking…

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During Secondary School most people would have an intended career and shape their studies in that path but for Begum Shafrana Baksh she needed to be well rounded so she can function in any field. It is for that very reason that she wrote 16 CSEC subjects and secured 15 Grade Ones and a Grade 2. Begum was named as number 12 amongst the country’s top 20 at this year CSEC Examinations. For that, the Anna Regina Secondary student, said she is elated and that she would not have been…

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Two Guyana Times journalists were recipients of various awards as the Guyana Press Association (GPA) hosted its second annual dinner and awards ceremony on Sunday evening at the Georgetown Club. Shemuel Fanfair, who reports primarily on agriculture, politics and legal matters, received the second prize for Young Journalist-of-the-Year as well as the third prize for the best political story. Meanwhile, Lakhram Bhagirat, who principally specialises in health, human rights, community issues and feature writing, secured the third place prize for the Young Journalist-of-the-Year category and for best coverage of human…

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By Lakhram Bhagirat Daniel Boodhoo is a quiet, reserved and respectful young man and a teacher’s dream student. He does what is expected of him and questions his teachers if he does not understand a topic and for some of his teachers it came as no surprise when he secured five Grade Ones, two Grade Twos and a Grade Four at the CSEC level. I first encountered Daniel when I joined the teaching staff at the Vreed en Hoop Secondary School and he always stood out amongst the boys in…

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Securing 15 passes at the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate level is not an easy task and requires dedication and commitment, according to 17-year-old Derianna Williams. Derianna, a student of the Three Miles Secondary School in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) secured Grade 1 passes in EDPM, English A, Mathematics; Grade Two in Agricultural Science, Biology, Food and Nutrition, Human and Social Biology, Information Technology, Integrated Science, Principles of Business; and Grade Three in Chemistry, English B, Physics and Social Studies. Growing up Derianna was always a quiet person and to this date…

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