Welcome to the GUYANESE Online Blog – Now over 5 Million views

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The Guyanese Online Blog celebrated its Eight Anniversary on February 9, 2018

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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 organisations around the world.   Blog entries are inserted regularly and there was also a monthly newsletter, emailed to thousands of Guyanese around the world.

For more info on Guyanese Online go to:> this Link

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Guyanese Associations: Events, Conferences, and Publications

UPCOMING CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS and EVENTS by GUYANESE ASSOCIATIONS

Guyanese Associations can advertise FREE on this Blog.  Please send your advertisements to 
Contact Cyril Bryan at cybryan@gmail.com   

Updated on October 14, 2018:

UG – University of Guyana – Events Scheduled from October to December 2018

UG – University of Guyana – Discussion on Marijuana and Guyana – October 17. 2018 .. (NEW)

East Coast Guyana Reunion Dance – London, England. UK – October 19, 2018

Charlestown Alumni Association NY (CAANY)- 29th Annual Benefit Dance – October 20. 2018.. (NEW)

Queens College Alumni Toronto – Casino Rama Bus Trip – October 20. 2018

New Amsterdam Technical Institute Alumni – Toronto – Dinner/ Dance – October 20. 2018

BHS Alumni Association- Toronto – Casino Rama Visit – October 27. 2018… (NEW)

COFONA- New Amsterdam Benefit Ball – Brooklyn NY – October 27. 2018

Senior Guyanese Friendship Assoc. – Toronto – Fall Dance – October 27. 2018

Masquerade Fete… by One Love Media – Toronto – October 27. 2018

Guyana Christian Charities (GCC) Bake Sale – Toronto – October 28, 2018

Guyanese Canadian Cultural Association of BC (GCCABC) – OLE TIME LIME – November 3. 2018

CIMBUX Inc – 16th Biennial Reunion & Awards Ceremony – Lanham MD – November 10. 2018

Guyana Ex-Police Association of Canada – Remembrance Brunch – Toronto – November 11. 2018 (NEW)

Guyana Ex-Soldiers Association Canada – Christmas Dinner/Dance – Toronto – December 1. 2018 (NEW)

GESAC – Xmas Dinner- Dance – Toronto – December 1. 2018

Cricket Council USA – 10th US OPEN CRICKET Tournament – FLORIDA – December 12th – 16th, 2018

St Joseph Mercy Hospital – Christmas Brunch – Pickering Ontario – December 16. 2018

St. Stanislaus College Alumni – Toronto – New Year’s Eve Gala – 2018

Ring in 2019: New Year’s Eve Dinner & Dance – Markham, Ontario, Canada

                 ANNOUNCEMENTS and NEWSLETTERS: 

Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship Fund – Mc Master University

Cuso International – Guyana: Volunteer Opportunities – October 2018

GIHR: Guyana Institute of Historical Research Newsletter – October 2018

CSJAD Monthly Edition of ‘The New Road’ newsletter – September 2018

Buxton-Friendship Express Newsletter – October 2018

GCA honours 90-year-old, Dharmaaacharya Pandit Ramlall at the 2018 Awards Ceremony

Guyanese Cultural giants honoured in New York – by Francis Quamina Farrier + Videos

Guyana: The Diaspora Times – August 2018 Issue

Updated on October 14, 2018

March 16, 2018 – 2:54 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Associations, Guyana, Newsletters, Politics | Comments (1)

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Guyanese Online Entries from January 1, 2018 – Click Links to View

View of Georgetown from Bank of Guyana Building. St George’s Cathedral is featured here.

 Guyanese Online Entries from January 1, 2018 

Entries Lists are mailed out every 6 days

Send us your email if you want to receive the mail-outs.  Contact: Cyril Bryan :  cybryan@gmail.com

 

March 15, 2018 – 12:01 am Categories: Blog Statistics - Top links, Guyana, Newsletters | Post a comment

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OPEN FORUM for READERS TO POST ENTRIES

OPEN FORUM for READERS TO POST ENTRIES

FROM: JANUARY 2018

This page entry is a suggestion from one of our readers. It will always be located on the first page of this website. It will have a new BLOG ENTRY for every month.

It has been created to allow readers to post entries on ANY subject. This will widen the number and scope of subjects carried on this website, since they will be selected by you.

As a Contributor …..   PLEASE PUT A HEADLINE ON YOUR ENTRY.

Create your entry as a COMMENT to your entry. It could be an article or/and YouTube video. Make a short intro that leads to a link or PDF attachment. 

As a Reader  …. please attach your comments to the entry made by the Contributor.

You do not have to use your real name to submit entries.

Thanks for your support. Looking forward to your entries.

Cyril Bryan. Editor.

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Also view comments in the December 2017 entry: https://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/open-forum-for-readers-to-post-entries/

 

December 26, 2017 – 9:28 am Categories: Commentary, OPEN FORUM, Personalities | Comments (14)

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Guyana Census 2012 highlights decline in main ethnic populations

Guyana Census 2012 highlights decline in main ethnic populations

 

The Bureau of Statistics announced, on July 18, its publications of Compendiums One and Two further detailing the findings of the 2012 Census.

This recent publication, Compendium Two, was disseminated earlier this month. It provides further information about the country’s population composition in terms of Ethnicity, Age structure, Dependency Ratios & Religion.  

Additionally new information about the population trends such as national population size by Region and population growth patterns are also detailed in this latest publication.

Continue reading →

July 19, 2016 – 6:41 pm Categories: Business, Economics/Finance, Government, Guyana, History, Science | Comments (13)

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GUYANA: LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS – Updated

Information For Nation Building

Here is the latest list of the various Ministries in the Government of Guyana. Information is automatically updated by GINA. This website also has links to all of the Ministries:

 
Previous ministerial announcements are below:

GUYANA: LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS – 20 May 2015

GUYANA - CABINET MEMBERS - MAY 2015

GUYANA – CABINET MEMBERS – MAY 2015

President David A Granger this afternoon (20 May 2015) at the Presidential Complex ( renamed Ministry of the Presidency), swore in several Members of the Cabinet of the APNU+AFC government.

  • Moses Nagamootoo, Prime Minister and First vice-President,
  • Minister of State Joe Harmon,
  • Basil Williams, Attorney General,
  • Khemraj Ramjattan, Minister of National Security (still to be sworn in),
  • Winston Jordan, Minister of Finance,
  • Carl Greenidge, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
  • Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, Minister of Education,
  • Nicolette Henry, Minister within the Ministry of Education,   Continue reading →
May 21, 2015 – 12:01 am Categories: Business, Education, Governance, Government, Guyana, Local Government, Medical, Tourism / Entertainment | Comments (12)

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Guyana Memories: “I’ll always Remember” and “I’ll never Forget” – by Francis Quamina Farrier

Dave Martins with Farrier

Like so many Guyanese and many other nationals around the world, I am a Dave Martins fan. I love his music with that rich bouncy Caribbean beat. I love his lyrics, always with something to learn and think about. And during the past decade or so, I have come to enjoy reading his weekly column in the Sunday Stabroek News.

In a more recent article entitled “Lessons I never forgot”, in which he was reflecting on his learning experiences while an up-and-coming musical entertainer, I couldn’t help observing his use of the term, “I never forgot”,  which was in the Headline.  It got me to thinking of something I was doing unwittingly for many decades, with the use of that term,  “I’ll never forget”, and it’s twin, “I’ll always remember”, and realised that somehow I was using both terms, which I suppose means the same thing, very selectively.    Continue reading →
October 16, 2018 – 8:51 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Education, Personalities, Philosophy, Commentary, Guyana, Caribbean news, guyana tourism | Post a comment

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Barbados: Hundreds of Government Workers to lose jobs – PM Mia Mottley

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday October 15, 2018 – Hundreds of government workers in Barbados – but not more than 1,500, mostly in temporary positions, will be laid off over the coming weeks as the Government continues to execute its International Monetary Fund(IMF)-supported economic recovery and transformation plan.

In a televised address to the nation yesterday evening, Prime Minister Mia Mottley dismissed rumours that thousands of civil servants would go on the breadline, and outlined a series of strategies to help those who would be, cope.           Continue reading →

October 16, 2018 – 8:08 am Categories: Business, Caribbean news, Government, Personalities | Post a comment

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Miss Earth Guyana Bags Gold Medal for National Costume – “Ole Higue”

Miss Earth Guyana Bags Gold Medal for National Costume

Miss Earth Guyana 2018 at the center with her medal.

Xamiera Kippins, Miss Earth Guyana 2018 has captured the gold medal for South America at the Miss Earth National Costume Competition. Kippins displayed an illustration of Guyanese folklore – The Ole Higue. Peru and Ecuador were awarded the Bronze and Silver medals respectively.

The delegates of Miss Earth 2018 showcased their respective countries’ rich culture and heritage through the national costume competition held October 11 at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines.          Continue reading →

October 16, 2018 – 2:07 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Associations, Guyana, Personalities | Post a comment

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Business: Sears – The Store That Changed America – Declares Bankruptcy

Countz Lifestyle

Sears, the once-dominant retail chain that changed how Americans shopped and lived, has filed for bankruptcy, CNN reports.

The 132-year-old company has been struggling for several years and is drowning in debt. The final straw was a $134 million debt payment due Monday that it could not afford.

Sears Holdings (SHLD), the parent company of Sears and Kmart, is among dozens of prominent retailers to declare bankruptcy in the era of Amazon (AMZN).

The filing in federal bankruptcy court in New York came in the early hours of Monday morning. The company issued a statement saying it intends to stay in business, keeping open stores that are profitable, along with the Sears and Kmart websites.

As of the filing, about 700 stores remained open and the company employed 68,000 workers. That’s down from 1,000 stores with 89,000 employees that it had as recently as February.

But Sears said that it’s…

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October 16, 2018 – 1:18 am Categories: Business, Commentary, Technology, USA Politics and Economy | Post a comment

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Profile: The late Romesh Singh – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine

Profile: Romesh Singh -Engineer, Activist and Teacher

Romesh Singh, also known as Romesh Chandra Dutt was a person of many interests. He built radios and radars, set up communication links that brought the world closer and never lost sight of the fact that ordinary people matter. Romesh was one of the foremost telecommunications engineers of his generation that designed complex systems.

He was unassuming but firm in his convictions, and above all, he had an abiding love for his homeland, Guyana.

When you were with Romesh you knew that he stood for what was right. He did not play around with words, or said one thing and meant something else. Romesh was the genuine article, a scholar with varied interests, outspoken in his views, and always giving of his best to the community.

Read more: Profile – Romesh Singh = By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine

October 16, 2018 – 1:05 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Associations, Commentary, Education, Guyana, History, Personalities, Philosophy, Politics | Post a comment

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UK Councils Condemned For ‘Shameful’ Rebranding of Black History Month 

Appropriation row comes as councils scrap the Black History Month name in favour of celebrations of all different ethnicities

Sally Weale and Robert Booth | The Guardian UK

For more than 30 years, Black History Month has been a fixture in Britain’s cultural calendar, celebrated every October in schools and at tens of thousands of events across the country.

But this year the event is at the centre of an appropriation row as campaigners complain that a number of councils have scrapped the name, describing it instead as a celebration of all different ethnicities.        Continue reading →

October 16, 2018 – 12:48 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Associations, Education, Emigration/Immigration, History, Personalities, Philosophy | Post a comment

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Despite criticisms, UG prepares to bestow honorary doctorates on four Guyanese

University of Guyana

Oct 15, 2018 – Kaieteur News

The University of Guyana’s academic board has for the first time approved a decision to confer Honorary Doctorates on four distinguished Guyanese.

The board recently approved the petition from Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith to confer Honorary Doctorates on the internationally acclaimed singer Eddy Grant of ‘Electric Avenue’ fame; Amerindian rights activist, Laura George; astute businessman, Yesu Persaud; and U.S based realty businessman and philanthropist, Jay Sobhraj.           Continue reading →

October 15, 2018 – 10:55 am Categories: Business, Education, Guyana, Personalities | Post a comment

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Guyanese pilot who escaped with two planes dies in Long Island crash

Munidat “Raj” Persaud

 Oct 15, 2018  – Kaieteur News

A Guyanese pilot who was investigated by local aviation officials for the unauthorised departure of two planes in 2016, died in a small plane that crashed into the ocean waters off of Long Island, New York.

Munidat “Raj” Persaud, 41, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was identified as a victim in the Saturday morning crash, New York State Police said. The plane crashed around 11 a.m. about a mile off of Quogue, New York, in the Hamptons.    Continue reading →

October 15, 2018 – 10:41 am Categories: Business, crime and Investigations, Guyana, International News, Personalities | Comments (2)

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Technology: Critical Transformation of a Generation – By Yvonne Sam

A generation is learning from what they see- So adults must perfect models be.

By Yvonne Sam

My next door neighbor, who also hails from my native land, has two young sons, and although one is a tot and the other a baby I recently became concerned while interacting with them.  Unlike their parents whose concern may lie somewhere between teething and potty training, my biggest concern, strangely enough was how to keep cellphones out of their hands for at least the next fifteen years.  Yes, go ahead and exhale now.

Today kids and teenagers alike face an epidemic without a cure: screen time—–  and all its accompanying dysfunction, mental health problems and bad habits. The head-in-the-phone attitude is more than mere irritation.  Sad but true this behavior, seemingly harmless in itself can nevertheless determine whether or not a young person lives or dies.    Continue reading →

October 15, 2018 – 12:26 am Categories: International News, Personalities, Science, Technology | Post a comment

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Netherlands restores Guyana’s Dutch archive

Netherlands restores Guyana’s Dutch archive

Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr George Norton with conservation specialist Gabriela Beentjes – National Archives of the Netherlands

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana, the former British Guiana, was a Dutch colony before it became a British possession in 1831 and, as a result, over half of Guyana’s National Archive is in Dutch. After an agreement between Guyana and the Netherlands to preserve and translate the Guyana Dutch Archive, which was in tatters, the final segment of the project was completed and handed over to Guyana two weeks ago.       Continue reading →

October 15, 2018 – 12:16 am Categories: Arts / Culture, Government, Guyana, History, Personalities, Technology | Comments (1)

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