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Women Day March 8, 2026, a 39 year old mother of 6 ... applicable. We also know that the Child Advocacy Centre did forensic interviews with both of these teen mothers and ... full follow up measures should have been taken for the protection, prevention, safety and well-being for these two teen mothers including ongoing psycho social counselling, sexual and reproductive health care, social and economic support including charging and prosecution of sexual abuse offenders if necessary. Neither the Minister of Human Services nor the Child Protection Agency has explained in any detail the failures of the national child protection system to protect these two teen mothers including breaches of the Protection of the Children Act. The brutal dragging of a schoolchild in uniform through the streets of Guyana by child protection officers on a truancy campaign is also a shocking public display of child physical abuse by those entrusted to protect the children of Guyana. Clearly, we have a crisis in Guyana’s system for child protection and in protecting children from all forms of violence ... Guyana’s primary policy regarding teenage pregnancy is the 2018 National Policy for the Reintegration of Adolescent ... delivery, with the aim of preventing school dropouts. The government according to UNICEF also focuses on sexual reproductive health, including contraceptive access and awareness campaigns. However, a lack of independent research, ... unavailable publicly. This continuing lack of public reporting undermines accountability and weakens national prevention efforts. According to the 2022 World Bank’s Report “Addressing Teenage Pregnancy in Latin America” Guyana exceeded Latin ... risky sexual encounters and vulnerability to sexual predators. What is needed in Guyana is an independent comprehensive and far-reaching investigation into the child protection system operating in Guyana with a view to making the necessary changes to ensure we have a national system that is accountable and works in the best interests of our children, adolescents, teens and families, reduces teenage pregnancies, incorporates best practices, recognizes and utilizes the skills, experience and expertise of key civil society organizations and individuals so as to ensure Guyanese children are fully protected, respected and nurtured to reach their full potential. Secrecy and lack of accountability must end for Guyana to fulfill its obligations to the ... Yours faithfully, Danuta Radzik ### Celebrating production of 2457 tonnes of sugar in a week is ludicrous 6 h ago ### Child advocacy efforts 6 h ago ### Guyana should get 80% of windfall oil companies will reap from war 6 h ago ### SN’s exit will be a great loss to the country 6 h ago ### With SN gone the civil society voice will be much diminished 6 h ago ### These two officers have undermined the child protection structure

for full access to stabroeknews.com. You can also post comments, and manage your email subscription. Keep me logged in. (Uncheck if you are using a shared device). Lost your password? Login ... Terms of Service | Privacy Policy Letters to the Editor # Serious intervention needed to save Childcare & Protection Agency and Probation & Social Services By Stabroek News March 1, 2026 Dear Editor, The tragedies of the fourteen and fifteen-year-old mothers are causing me anguish. I would really like to know what was the response of Childcare & Protection Agency in these cases. The age of consent for sexual activity is sixteen ... Laws to report the matter to the Agency, who must intervene for the protection of the children and babies and bring the perpetrators to justice. Protection involves the children being taken into safe places with the babies for care while the cases are being investigated, and if adult perpetrators are involved, they must be charged for statutory rape. In care, both mother and ... There is something not right at the Childcare & Protection Agency in terms of leadership and execution of roles. There are reports that individuals are placed in high positions with not an ounce of training and understanding of ... going through the motions. This is sad and it seems to be a common trend in the Department of Ministry of Human Services. Serious intervention is needed at this stage to save Childcare & Protection Agency and the Probation & Social Services and all the other professional departments, who are crying out for informed and effective ... Minister is the Executive Political Head of the Ministry, Permanent Secretary is the administrative head, but not the professional heads of the Departments. These must be certified as well as qualified specialists in the professional ... Executive Head and Permanent Secretary in the delivery of Human Services and Social Work in the ministry. There is a great need now to save the two main Departments of the Ministry: Probation & Social Services and Childcare & Protection Agency, these are key agencies for service and protection of children, young people and ... Former Director of Childcare & Protection Agency Trending 1. ## WIN hires US lobbyist 2. ... 8. ## GPSU’s women’s wing calls for immediate action to safeguard young girls More in Letters to the Editor ### [We must ensure genuine enrichment in the lives of all Guyanese rather than merely creating protected spaces for ... ### SN would be an invaluable source of historical information for future generations of Guyanese 14 mins ago ### Consistent enforcement of traffic laws needed for safe public transportation 15 mins ago ### Unprincipled for President to declare oil off limits as humanitarian aid to Cuba 16 mins ago ### Stabroek News provided a space to vent, protest, endorse and much more 17 mins ago ... Related Coverage ### Childcare agency treats reports of child abuse with confidentiality September 25, 2014 ### Mothers are leading perpetrators of child abuse – childcare agency finds December 18, 2020 ### [Childcare agency lacks the resources to respond to the

Privacy Policy In The Diaspora # A tribute to Rupert Roopnaraine Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine By Stabroek News February 24, 2026 **By Nigel Westmaas** Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine passed away on Republic Day, 2026. Born on 31 January 1943, Rupert Roopnaraine belongs to that rare generation of Caribbean thinkers who refused to choose between the life of the mind and the risks of political struggle. He carried both, and he carried them fully. I vaguely recall in the 1980s when Rupert held his weekly Marxist classes at his home, we were required to read Georgi Plekhanov’s The Role of the Individual in History. It is a stern Marxist text, cautious about elevating the “subjective factor,” wary of attributing too much to any one person. In some circles of the WPA at the time, that question was ... Rupert Roopnaraine was, in many ways, a paradox. Possessed of a sharp and disciplined intellect – especially at the well of classical literature – he also knew the intricacies of Guyanese political culture and its cast of characters as few others do. He was a student at Queen’s College and one of those who grew up in a Guyana in the 1950s/1960s where there were both the despair of political divisions and the hopes for independence. He was also an ... how others saw him, or in reading the quiet calculations of those around him. It is part of what makes him human, ... Rupert’s influence was a fusion of intellectual production and movement politics. He was equally at home writing ... Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, and our own Martin Carter. He authored three books and a collection of poetry; his collection of essays, The Sky’s Wild Noise, won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction. His essays on Carter’s poetry ... In 1976, Rupert resigned from a professorial position in Comparative Literature at Cornell University; returning to ... Omawale, Rupert Roopnaraine and Walter Rodney leave the Magistrate’s court after being ... power at the time. There were risks to equipment, the WPA news sheet Dayclean and leaflets. After piling the public ... In the turbulent days of the WPA, under intense pressure from the state, he showed not only bravery but formidable ... holding forth with wit, insight and principled (com)passion, more often than not without a single note in sight. The late Barbadian novelist George Lamming once described how speeches should be geared at “making the collective mind of the crowd feel,” with novels “making the feeling think.” In a region where political oratory has sometimes become ... If Roopnaraine brought anything distinctive to the political table, it is precisely the WPA values to which the party ... Hoyte. He stood inside and outside the political party and later the state, as an intrinsic cultural critic who never ... Plekhanov may have warned us about overstating the role of individuals. History has its tides, its structures, its ... over expediency. Rupert Roopnaraine is one of those figures. His life reminds us that ideas have consequences, that ... In 2009, in a letter to the press, he drew a comparison between the treatment of a citizen, Troy Small, who was held in ... expanded to include Bonita Harris, Karen DeSouza, Maurice Odle and Davo Nandlall. That morning I was taken to Eve Leary ... Rupert’s essays in his collected work The Sky’s Wild Noise contain tributes to Cheddi Jagan, Desmond Hoyte, Walter Rodney, Martin Carter and Phillip Allsopp “Soppy”. In these stories of lives lived, we find the full of the man of literature, the politician and the best examples of memorialising those who have transitioned. In his tribute on the passing of Martin Carter in 1997, he noted that Carter died amidst the electoral conflict between the two main ... to Guyana, Rupert observed a stark, even beautiful irony in Carter’s passing in the context of election unrest on the ... Our condolences to Rupert’s children, Terry (Silke)