Guyanese OnlineGuyanese Online has created a website for Cuso International – Guyana.
The website highlights the past an present projects of Cuso in Guyana. It also advertises the requirement for volunteers in present and future projects. Here is the List of entries on the Cuso Guyana site: https://cusoguyana.wordpress.com
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As a result, only US-based airlines can fly nonstop between Guyana and the United States, so with the demise of Dynamic Airways two weeks ago, which provided non-stop service between Georgetown and New York City, airlift between these two cities is at an all time low. Continue reading
Guyana: Health & Education Relief Organization for Cancer (H.E.R.O.C.)
Mission to Guyana – October 22-29, 2017
The Health & Education Relief Organization for Cancer (H.E.R.O.C.) will be embarking on their second annual Cancer Mission to Guyana on October 22nd, 2017. All events will be in conjunction with our sister organization, The Giving Hope Foundation (G.H.F) in Guyana.
Events of the week are:
Private Events:
An inspirational Retreat for the H.E.R.O.C. and G.H.F. members
Look Good/Feel Better Event for 35 Cancer Patients and Survivors
Events Open to the Public: Continue reading
The couple met nearly 12 years ago on a dance floor at the Washington nightclub Pearl.
Few love stories resemble a fairy tale as much as the courtship and marriage of Ariana Austin and Joel Makonnen. Of course, it helped that the groom is an actual prince and the bride has a prominent lineage of her own.
Mr. Makonnen, known as Prince Yoel, is the 35-year-old great-grandson of Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia. And Ms. Austin, 33, is of African-American and Guyanese descent; her maternal grandfather was a lord mayor of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
Annual Diwali festival lights up Richmond Hill, New York – Saturday October 14, 2017
Massive crowds at the Diwali Motorcade New York – Saturday October 14, 2017
The Grand Marshall, Dr. Dhanpaul Narine leads the Parade
The Diwali Motorcade last Saturday night (October 14, 2017) turned out to be a historic event. The crowds were massive under warm skies. The Police catered for about 2,000 persons but close to 10,000 persons showed up that made the Motorcade the biggest in North America. Several more streets had to be closed to accommodate the crowds, with additional security called.
The Grand Marshall, Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, had asked for 1,000 persons to walk with him but about twice this number was present. The cultural program was great and included items from Guyana, Suriname, India and Trinidad, among others. Continue reading →
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