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Daily Archives: 04/13/2019
Guyana History: Village problems in Guyana 100 years ago – By Winston McGowan
-Stabroek News – April 12, 2001 – By Winston McGowan
This article will focus on conditions in eighteen villages of Guyana, which one hundred years ago were under the control of the Central Board of Health. These villages were for the most part inhabited mainly by Africans.
They included Sparendaam, Plaisance, Beterverwagting, Buxton and Friendship, Golden Grove and Nabaclis, Victoria and Ann’s Grove and Two Friends on the East Coast of Demerara, Agricola, Mocha and Craig on the East Bank, Bagotville, Goed Intent and Sisters, and Stanleytown on the West Bank, Den Amstel and Fellowship and De Kinderen on the West Coast of Demerara, Queenstown and Danielstown in Essequibo and Cumberland in Berbice.
About one hundred years ago these villages were experiencing serious problems which made life for the residents very challenging. Perhaps their most fundamental and most disturbing problem was geophysical, namely, their inability for the most part to cope effectively with the formidable challenges of sea and river defence, drainage and irrigation. These difficulties stemmed from the fact that the coast was below sea level, the rivers often overflowed their banks and the country frequently suffered from seasons of heavy rainfall.
READ MORE: Village problems in Guyana 100 years ago
Guyana: 20,000 fewer US visitors’ visas issued last year
20,000 fewer US visitors’ visas issued last year
According to figures published by the US Department of State under “Summary of Visas Issued by Issuing Office”, for the Fiscal Year 2018, there were 7,506 immigrant visas issued.
This compared to 4,000 during the previous year. Continue reading
Caribbean: The View from Europe: A cold wind starts to blow – By David Jessop
The View from Europe: A cold wind starts to blow
David Jessop
By David Jessop
New winds are blowing through the Caribbean. Some may welcome what they bring; others may not.
Four events in the last month illustrate how the region is being captured, probably irretrievably, by a new if so far ill-defined Cold War that involves the US, China, Russia and Europe which for strategic reasons are seeking geopolitical and geo-economic influence in the region.
The most high-profile demonstration of this came in Washington’s decision to invite just five Caribbean leaders to a meeting with President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida March 22. A second illustration was a pre-arranged visit to the Dominican Republic just one day later by the Chinese Vice Premier, Hu Chunhua. The third relates to Venezuela and a low-key exchange organised with Canadian support between a delegation of CARICOM foreign ministers and Juan Guaidó, the country’s self-declared President. Moreover, the fourth was a Royal visit to Cuba which indirectly underlined the growing transatlantic rift between Europe and the US. Continue reading →
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