Nazima Raghubir, Author at Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network

Nazima Raghubir

Nazima Raghubir is a journalist and media professional who has spent all of her adult life in local and regional media. Nazima started her career in the media profession at Guyana televisions ‘Prime News’ at the age of 17. During her career she has undertaken the roles of Reporter, Anchor and Managing and Acting Editor. Nazima is currently a Senior Reporter and Anchor with Prime News. Since 2015 Nazima has taken on the roles of Communications and Public Relations Consultant and Project Management Consultant. She has led several major projects including the development of public awareness publications for the Parliament of Guyana. From 2015 to 2017 Nazima was Editor of ‘Insight’, a current affairs print and online publication magazine. She was elected as President of the Caribbean's 2nd oldest media body, the Guyana Press Association (GPA) in 2018 and is the first woman elected to head this 74 year old association. As President of the GPA, she is responsible for ensuring the freedom of information and freedom of press are upheld through legislative process and has been working to ensure the rights of the media /press are recognised and respected

Antigua & Barbuda

In the Caribbean, Women and Girls Face Daily Threats of Sexual Violence; Getting Justice is Another Ordeal

By

Natalee Legore,

Keyola Greene,

Nazima Raghubir and

Latrishka Thomas | October 3, 2024

For many Caribbean women, few places are safe from the threat of rape or sexual violence. Women report experiencing sexual violence in their workplaces and being violated by people in their towns and villages. Many times, the places that should be the safest for women are the most dangerous: their own homes. Homes are where many children–mainly young girls–are targeted for grooming, molestation and rape by a family member, neighbors or other people they know. Sexual violence of women in the region is so prevalent that Caribbean nations accounted for five of the world’s top 20 rape rates in 2019, according to the World Population Review, which studies demographics around the globe.

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Crime

In This South American Nation, Rapes of Women, Young Girls, and Migrants are Rampant

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Nazima Raghubir | October 3, 2024

Victims Often Abandon Their Quest To Put Rapists Behind Bars; Police Are Slow To Act

Clad in all black, the teary-eyed woman could barely compose herself in the witness box of Guyana’s High Court. The mother of the rape survivor was confronting her child’s rapist once again, this time to read her daughter’s letter.

Fewer than a dozen people, including friends and family of both the survivor and the rapist, gathered in the Georgetown court for the sentencing. Oswald Bedlow, 37, was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl, the daughter of a family friend, in December 2022.

“I would never be able to trust anyone anymore after what Uncle Wally did to me,” the sobbing mother read. Through her mother, the survivor said she remained traumatised, unable to trust and maintain relationships. The incident affected the entire family who, after she was raped, had to relocate to a new home.

The scene outside the courtroom before Oswald Bedlow was sentenced to 16 years jail

Bedlow had taken her on a drive.

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Human Trafficking

Desperate Venezuelan Women Flee Their Nation

An Attempt to Escape Grinding Poverty Leads to Human Traffickers and Sex Slavery

By

Nazima Raghubir,

Alva Solomon and

Mark Bassant | June 3, 2020

The Venezuelan crisis has scattered five million of the country’s people across the globe.

Like other places in Venezuela, the economy of Tucupita, a small swampy town in the Orinoco Delta had collapsed, causing thousands of residents to flee.

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