Posted by wiig on April 21, 2008
Stabroek News – April 21, 2008
Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that he believes that Guyana is not too poor a nation to achieve its goal of a 75 percent reduction in maternity deaths by 2015.
Speaking at the Advance in Labour and Risk Management (Alarm) international course on Obstetrician and Gynaecology workshop held at Cara Lodge last Friday, the health minister asserted, “I do not believe that when it comes to maternal child health care that a child born in Albion must be worse off than a child born in Canada.”
The Government Information Agency (GINA) reported that the objective of the workshop is to improve the health and status of women and their new born by advancing awareness and respect of sexual and reproductive rights of women among health care workers.
It also aims to increase the availability of competent and quality medical care by sensitizing health care workers to deliver quality maternal and new born care services. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by wiig on April 21, 2008
Guyana Chronicle – April 21, 2008
A 23-year-old Enmore housewife was found dead yesterday morning, an apparent victim of a volatile relationship. The body of Shanieza Khan was discovered by a female relative in the bedroom of the modest Grassfield house she shared with her companion of four years, and her four-year-old daughter from another relationship.
According to the relative who discovered the body, she went to check on her sister who had left their mother’s house to collect some clothing. She stated that the man, a cane harvester, started physically abusing Shanieza some four months ago. When the battering became too much, the young woman eventually moved backed to her mother’s home in Foulis approximately four weeks ago.
Shanieza Khan left unaccompanied for Enmore at around 13:00 hours on Saturday, but when the woman next saw her sister, she was lying on the bedroom floor of her house with her throat slit and a knife next to her body – this was around 10 hours yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by wiig on April 21, 2008
Stabroek News – April 21, 2008
A 59-year-old taxi-driver charged with having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Maurice Fung of Lot 45 Princes Street, Werk-en-Rust was not required to plead to three charges of carnally knowing a girl under the age of 15 years and was remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
It is alleged that between November 7 and November 30 last year, he had carnal knowledge of the minor. It is also alleged that he committed a similar act on February 13 and then last Tuesday.
Reports are that the police acting on information received went to a hotel and discovered Fung and the girl there. He was arrested and charged.
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