Guyana

On International Women’s Day, March 8th 2010, women from the Guyana coastlands joined women from the interior in a powerful Mothers March marking the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The march, called by Red Thread and its network Grassroots Women Across Race, was held in the interior region of Mahdia, and organized on the ground by GWAR organisers Marbell, an Indigenous woman subsistence farmer and Marcie, an Afro-Guyanese woman small vendor.

January 9, 2009

Dear Editor,

We appreciate the fact that the Minister of Finance has realized the need to increase the old age pension and has sought to do so. However, an increase of $300 is totally inadequate. It brings the pension to $6300 a month. Who could live on $ 6300 a month? We know that in addition to the pension , old age pensioners are provided useful help with water and electricity. But $6300 is not even enough to buy food for a month, let alone address essential needs other than water and electricity.