Guyanese Online celebrated its 11th Anniversary in February 2021.
We have a large database of Guyanese worldwide. Most of our readers (over 78%), are in the USA, Canada, and the UK & EU.
The website has carried articles and videos on Guyana, as well as articles and videos on a wide range of subjects that may be of interest to our readers, many of them non-Guyanese We hope that you like our selections. On the anniversary, we have had over 7.3 millions views on the website. This increases by at least 60,000 every month. Continue reading →
The Guyanese Online Blog: Tenth Anniversary – February 2020
Now over seven Million views
Guyanese Online Celebrated its 10th Anniversary – February 2020.
Published by Cyril Bryan – cybryan@gmail.com
The first entry in Guyanese Online was published on February 9, 2010.
At midnight on February 8, 2020 the total hits to date were 6,620,655. Total Posts or Entries were 13,254.
This website and the regular mail-outs are viewed by thousands of Guyanese and others, especially in the Diaspora.
We hope that Guyanese Online has been helpful in advertising the work of Guyanese Associations worldwide.
We also hope that you have enjoyed the news, articles, and commentaries on various subjects that relate to Guyana, the Caribbean Region and Internationally.
Cyril Bryan 2020
We thank all those who have contributed to make this website a success.
Most of all we thank the Associations and individuals who have made donations to ensure its viability over the years.
The following contains information regarding the blog since 2010
The Newsletter and Blog for Guyanese Associations and Groups, and individuals Worldwide
Welcome to the Guyanese Online Blog.
This Blog’s first entry was on February 9, 2010 and the first Newsletter was published in March 2010.
It was created by Cyril Bryan, as a project to help Guyanese in the Diaspora to be connected to some of the positive news from Guyana, as well as to the work being done by Guyanese and Guyanese organisations around the world. Blog entries are inserted daily and every day a list of these entries is emailed to thousands of Guyanese around the world. Send your name and email to cybryan@gmail.com to receive this list or relay it to your contacts. All entries are also in Facebook.. Thank you
TRAVEL: Why The American Car Fleet Is Getting So Old – Video
CNBC – 26 September 2021
In 2021, the average age of vehicles on the road reached a record 12.1 years. Every driver that chooses to hold on to a car for another year is postponing a trip to the dealership, and some industry analysts wonder if rising vehicle ages and prices indicate trouble for new car sales in the future. Automakers are stuffing cars with new technology and improvements but will that be enough to keep buyers wanting the latest and greatest?
The gas-to-energy project proposed by the Government of Guyana has the potential to not only create new industries and transform the economy but also represents the most environmentally sustainable option currently available to the country. This is according to Roger Kranenburg, an international executive who specialises in the energy, electric utility, and telecommunications industries. Kranenburg declared that the pros of the project far outweigh the cons.
The gas-to-energy project will utilise associated natural gas from ExxonMobil’s Liza field with the pipeline passing through Crane and other communities before being landed at Wales on the West Bank of Demerara where the power generation facility will be constructed. Continue reading →
Tie-in marketing is an approach in which a company purposefully creates an association between the company, its products or services, and whatever is trending or hot in the collective consciousness at that moment. Since 1956, the hot beverage in British Guiana has been Banks Beer. In 1955, under the slogan “people’s capitalism,” Peter D’Aguiar launched the public company Banks Breweries Ltd, the first brewery in British Guiana. It made good sense as an import substitution. Beer and other malted beverages had previously been imported. Substantial amounts of beer, ale, and stout were consumed in the hot and humid colony.
The term “people’s capitalism,” although seemingly oxymoronic, was brilliant in the context of the political jargon of the time. Share price was BG$1. This allowed working-class people to invest in the company. Continue reading →
Top 10 most common surnames in Guyana | Loop Caribbean News
Reposted here in Guyanese Online – September 24, 2021
Have you ever wondered what is the most common surname in Guyana? How about how many other people in the world share the same last name with you and in what countries?
According to Forebears.io, a genealogy portal that is geographically indexed and cross-references a directory of sources for family research history, Guyana has 28,594 unique surnames.
We have compiled a list of the top 10 most common surnames found in Guyana:
Paying tribute to the late Michael Gilkes, Ken Corsbie hailed ‘the volume and range of his work [and] his accumulated productivity over a lifetime as a poet, scholar, playwright, theatre practitioner and actor.’ To meet Michael was to sense immediately that he was a man of ‘many skins’, able to shed light effortlessly on Guyanese poetry, literature, art, plays and music and to add a regional and/or an international perspective. Other scholars might acquire a similar depth of knowledge about Wilson Harris or Edgar Mittelholzer or Denis Williams or some other local luminary. Few could corral them into a cast to populate the canvas of our complex culture with Michael’s facility.
Living Off-Grid for 17 Years on a Self-Built Island Homestead – Built with Salvaged Materials
Shadow built this incredible floating island with salvaged and reclaimed materials. The island comprises a 2-story float home, a floating chicken coop, floating gardens, and even a floating compost shed! He’s been living on the water for 17 years and working hard to protect the Widgeon Slough area in BC, Canada.
He gathers wood from the river to use as firewood, he grows some of his own fresh food in barrel gardens, and he collects fresh water from a nearby spring. He filters his greywater on a floating raft with multiple plant and husk filtration layers, and he composts his food and human waste to ensure that nothing goes overboard. Continue reading →
“To experience the culture there [in the Rupununi] and the position I am in today at the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, which is to be able to help my fellow Amerindian brothers and sisters within the villages on governance, project development, and support is what I view as great.”
At any successful entity or corporation, it is common knowledge that hiring the right people for the job produces better results for achieving the desired end.
For this week’s ‘Special Person,’ this certainly proves true. As someone who is always championing the cause of the indigenous peoples as an artist and Principal Regional Development Officer (PRDO) attached to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Anil Roberts is constantly striving towards preserving and advocating for their rights, culture and heritage.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and opposition forces got together in August to work out an accord which would hopefully ease international sanctions in a country with the largest oil reserves and one of the worst economic slumps.
The meeting took place in Norway – the second in two years–and participants managed to unite on one issue which had nothing to do with sanctions: a 180-year-old claim to “the historic and inalienable rights of Venezuela over the territory of Essequibo.”
That territory is two-thirds of Guyana, whose government said it “firmly rejects the agreement [as] an overt threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Guyana,” adding, “Guyana cannot be used as an altar of sacrifice for settlement of Venezuela’s internal political differences.” The opposition APNU+AFC Coalition affirmed the country’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.” The government and the opposition noted the issue is before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the latest stage of a dispute which began in 1841 involving two wholly unequal neighbors. Continue reading →
Government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign using the Russian Sputnik V vaccine has not been approved by the WHO or the FDA.
Sep 21, 2021- Kaieteur News – In its most recent recommendations, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that “people who received all or some of the recommended doses of a COVID-19 vaccine not listed for emergency use by WHO (World Health Organisation) and not authorised by FDA (US. Food and Drugs Administration) may be offered a complete FDA authorised COVID-19 vaccine series.”
The recommendation also states that persons should wait at least 28 days after being administered the last dose of the non-authorised vaccine before being administered the FDA-authorised vaccine. (Note – The Russian Sputnik V Vaccine is a non-authorized vaccine. It has been the most widely distributed vaccine in Guyana, purchased by the Government for millions of US dollars) Continue reading →
Guyanese Online Website – 12th Year – now over 7.5 Million Views
We have a large database of Guyanese worldwide. Most of our readers (over 78%), are in the USA, Canada, and the UK & EU.
The website has carried articles and videos on Guyana, as well as articles and videos on a wide range of subjects that may be of interest to our readers, many of them non-Guyanese We hope that you like our selections. On the anniversary, we have had over 7.3 millions views on the website. This increases by at least 60,000 every month. Continue reading →
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