NEW YORK – The adventure experts at Lonely Planet recently released the list of their top 25 “secret” destinations worldwide, and Guyana flew the flag for the Caribbean with the highest single drop waterfall on the planet, Located on the Potaro River in the Kaieteur National Park in Essequibo, the falls are 226 metres (741 […]
NEW YORK – A Guyana-born police officer was last week found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally gunning down his ex-fiancée back in 2007 in an incident described as the deadly end of the couple’s two-year tumultuous relationship. According to a New York Post report, Harry Rupnarine, 39, was found guilty by a Queens Supreme […]
By Gerald V. Paul Clarissa Riehl, Guyana’s recently appointed High Commissioner to Canada, called on Guyanese ” in the Diaspora” to promote their native land ” as a place to do business, to generate industries and to relax.” She was speaking at Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary Awards Gala on Saturday at the Brighton Convention and […]
So Eyes passed by the Africentric Alternative school in West Toronto recently and was greeted by excited students on their way home after their first day of classes in the new school term. Ah! memories of “small” days in Guyana growing up stupid under the Guyana flag but excited by things cultural -songs, poetry, dance […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Guyana will, on humanitarian grounds, assist Venezuelans and persons of other nationalities should they find themselves fleeing from their countries as a result of economic turmoil or political persecution. However, President David Granger said, assistance will not be done haphazardly. He said: “We are not going to simply open our borders to people […]
“We’ve been through fire, we’ve been through rain We’ve been refined by the pow’r of His name …” (Part of hymn South to the North and the South.) The Camera was invited to a gathering of the Guyanese Diaspora last Sunday at Hope Lutheran Church where Hope Steelband performed. At their recent Pentecost service, Guyanese […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Jerome Stuart was conferred with Guyana’s second highest award, the Order of Roraima (OR), by President David Granger at a simple investiture ceremony at State House. The President, who was advised by the chairman and members of the Advisory Council of the Orders of Guyana, said the conferral […]
CONCEPTION ISLAND BANK, The Bahamas – A new species of boa constrictor has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas. Scientists identified 20 of the metre-long snakes during two expeditions to the Caribbean islands, the second made in October last year. One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by slithering on to […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A joint forces operation swoop through Georgetown Prison last weekend confiscated contraband items such as cigarette lighters, improvised weapons and marijuana. This follows what was described by Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters as a “proliferation of contraband within the jail (that) raises serious public safety concerns” during the hearings into the recent Georgetown […]
She wanted to explore and figure things out and that’s exactly what U of T Scarborough student Daniela Spagnuolo did on a 10-month internship in Guyana. Armed with research information and contacts in Guyana through friends here of Guyanese heritage, the 21-year-old from North York related how she had eye-opening experiences, living on her own, […]
