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Guyana: And The Winner Is…

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Guyana-Gyal reveals the secret to winning and getting away with it.

“The Jaguar and the Theorist of Négritude”by Slade Hopkinson

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | yesterday

Slade Hopkinson was born into a middle class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana in 1934. His father was a barrister-at-law, his mother a nurse. A few years after the death of his father, his mother took Slade & his sister to live in Barbados where he attended Harrison College. In 1952, he went to the University College of the West Indies on a scholarship, coinciding with Derek Walcott and Mervyn...

Guyana, USA: Speaking With Soul

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

Signifyin' Guyana is enjoying reading a book about Ebonics, but says: “If I ketch any one of my students writing that way, he or she gon get a straight up F.”

From the Albert Dock to Guyana

National Museums Liverpool Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

... Britain, played a central role in transatlantic slavery. As part of this policy I was recently in Guyana for the Commonwealth Association of Museums conference on ‘Museums and Diversity'. I gave a paper titled ‘The International Slavery Museum: an active campaigner’. I wanted to draw attention in the paper not only to the fact that we want to work with museums in other countries, but how...

BVI Under-20 soccer team debuting in World Cup qualifier in Grenada --

Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

TORTOLA - The British Virgin Islands Football Association is making its Under 20 FIFA World Cup qualifying debut in Grenada, where it also will face St. Vincent and Guyana.

Wall Street News Alert: Wall Street News Alert: Breaking News Alert - GYGC! May 14, 2008

Market Wire - Investment Opinion (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

WESTON, FL (MARKET WIRE) Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: Guyana Gold Corporation (PINKSHEETS: GYGC), Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE), ConAgra Foods Incorporated (NYSE: CAG) and H. J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ).

Kidney transplants, earlier HIV treatment for Guyanese

Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Guyana is set to see the first kidney transplant done in the country next month.

EPA signing delayed again

Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

The new trade deal which member states of the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) - the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic - completed negotiations on last December will now be signed in July instead of by the end of June. (File photo)GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 14, 2008 - The signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Caribbean and the European Union has...

Guyana: The Art of Blogging

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

“I feel at home in my language–this brash, sexy combination of Standard-American-slang-Guyanese-creolese in which I speak and write. I own it. I am comfortable in it. I have no problem showing it off”: Blogging has helped Signifyin' Guyana realise how much she loves to write.

Rice row between Guyana and Jamaica settled

Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Jamaica and Guyana have reached a compromise to settle a rice row over the decision by the Bruce Golding administration to seek a waiver of the Common External Tariff (CET) in order to import rice from the United States (US).

• Rice deal - Guyana gives nod to CET waiver in exchange for guaranteed orders - Jamaica Gleaner :: Business

Wall Street News Alert: Wall Street News Alert Issues Special Alert on GYGC! May 14, 2008

Market Wire - Investment Opinion (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

WESTON, FL (MARKET WIRE) Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: Guyana Gold Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GYGC), Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI), Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) and Del Monte Foods Company (NYSE: DLM).

Guyana: Hot Like Pepper

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Guyana-Gyal's mother is making her famous pepper sauce - and asks her to go out and buy the “Secret Ingredient”.

Jamaica third at women's rugby championships

Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

Trinidad and Tobago produced a stunning performance to defeat the Cayman Islands 79-0 and capture

Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana: Remembering Mittelholzer

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

“Before VS Naipaul or Samuel Selvon or Derek Walcott, there was Mittelholzer, who is regarded as one of the first professional novelists from the English-speaking Caribbean”: Trinidadian blogger Andre Bagoo observes the 43rd anniversary of the death of “this seminal Caribbean author”.

Guyana: Stop. Think. Change.

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

“If we want change, the first step towards it is to think”: The discovery of “a strange idea” leads Guyana-Gyal to be the change she wants to see.

Latin America Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Mercosur, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela 2007

rupali | 01/01/2008

This annual report offers a wealth of information on the telecoms markets in the Mercosur block (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) and Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. Subjects covered include: Key Statistics and forecasts Market and Industry Overviews Government policies and regulatory issues Historical information Major players (fixed-line, mobile, broadband, and pay TV) Telecom infrastructure...

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Latin America report 2007

rupali | 12/28/2007

This annual report offers a wealth of information on the telecoms markets in the Mercosur block (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) and Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. Subjects covered include: Key Statistics and forecasts Market and Industry Overviews Government policies and regulatory issues Historical information Major players (fixed-line, mobile, broadband, and pay TV) Telecom infrastructure...

Latin America - Convergence, Broadband & Internet Statistics (tables only) report 2007

rupali | 12/26/2007

This report comprises statistical tables only. 170 tables are provided on a country by country basis, with a brief introduction. Some of the data is not current, but was the latest available at the time of publication. Countries covered are: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Countries, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,...