One of the biggest social issues being debated right now by candidates running for the office of President of the United States of America is the topic of abortion of the unborn baby. Many of them are pro-choice and feel threatened by the possibility of the Roe v. Wade law being overturned, so restricting pregnant women and girls from getting abortions. These individuals want to make sure they don’t lose this right to abortion and are doing everything within their…..
Gwendolyn Cotterell-Eidukonis was born in April 1964 in Jamaica, West Indies. Her parents, both farmers, lived in the country on a small farmland in a little village called Peace River. Gwendolyn is from a very large family and is the seventh of twelve children. Following her graduation from Bellefield Secondary School, Gwendolyn went to work at a local chocolate manufacturing company as accountant assistant. While there she attended West Indies College part-time and received an associate degree in business administration…..
Growing up on a farmland in a small community where everyone knew each other and shared generously with one another never prepared me for the harsh realities of life in the big wide world. Twenty years ago when I ventured out on my own and found myself pregnant and alone in a foreign country, then homeless with a one-month-old infant who was diagnosed with Down syndrome and a heart disease at birth, I was suddenly plunged into a world I…..