Guyanese OnlineWith the help of rich countries, Guyana is demonstrating that preservation can be profitable.
With the help of international donors, Guyana, a country of fewer than 750,000 people, is pioneering an approach to protecting the trees that cover more than four-fifths of its surface. To make the rainforest last, it’s using it up slowly. Continue reading
By Yvonne Sam
Formerly linked to impaired mental health cannabis is now bringing Canada untold wealth.
Sequential to Canada’s legalization of cannabis in October 2018, the industry has been steadily burgeoning. Statistics Canada claims that $5.7 billion has been spent on cannabis alone, making it a bigger sector than alcohol or tobacco. The majority of Canada’s 115 licensed weed producers reside in Ontario and British Colombia —with an additional 588+ applicants awaiting approval.
However, the challenge now being faced is that of finding experienced workers and cultivators in this relatively new industry. On a well-known job posting site Indeed.ca., there are more than 500 full time jobs which run the gamut from basic entry level positions such as bud trimmer, to retail-store workers to executive roles, including director of international expansion and construction for Canada’s largest cannabis company, Canopy Growth. https://ca.indeed.com/Marijuana-jobs
Guyana Tourism: Apr 29, 2019
Earliest inhabitants of Sloth Island
Nestled on 160 acres of pristine rainforest in the Essequibo River, Sloth Island is the ideal place for visitors who want a glimpse at nature uninhibited. The spot which provides a wide array of birds and wildlife is one of nature‘s best kept secrets. According to its developer, Raphael Ades, the island was once a neglected, uninhabited paradise. Continue reading
By Harry Hergash – May 6, 2019 – In In The Diaspora 
Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969. He immigrated to Canada in 1974.
Between 1838 and 1917, Indians were recruited and brought to Guyana, then a British colony called British Guiana, under the Indentureship system to provide manual labour on the sugar plantations, almost all in the hands of British and Scottish owners. Under this system, an overseas worker was hired under contract which bound the worker to a specific plantation for a fixed period of time under stated terms and conditions, including a fixed wage rate and paid return passage.
Indians were not the first or only group of labourers recruited under this arrangement. However, most of the non-Indian immigrants withdrew from the plantations soon after their introduction, and by the early 1850s, India became the primary source. According to one report from the 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition, of the 343,019 immigrants recruited between 1835 and 1921, India provided 239,979. Continue reading
Indian Immigration Monument
Stabroek News – May 05, 2019
The Indian Immigration Monument at Palmyra was today commissioned by President David Granger.
The President said in part: “The Indian Arrival Monument recalls the Indian indentured experience. It celebrates the migrants’ resistance, resilience and resourcefulness. It attests to the immigrants’ sacrifices, struggle and the pursuit of a good life.
“Indians, as others before them, were confronted by the abuse, cruelty and domination of plantation life and they resisted, sometimes by riots and strikes. Continue reading
PLACE NAMES ALONG GUYANA’S ROADS
(Source: Adapted from Gazetteer of Guyana, published by Lands and Surveys Department and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Georgetown, 2001)
Northwards from Supenaam River
Place Name – Kilometres – Miles
Supenaam River 0 0
Good Hope 1 0.6
Spring Garden 2.5 1.6
Good Intent 3.5 2.2
Aurora 4 2.5
Makeshift 5.5 3.4
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Enlarge this imageCanadian Firms “Lining Up” To Invest In Medical Marijuana Industry In Barbados, Says Prime Minister, Mia Mottley
Barbados PM – Mia Mottley
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 19, 2019 (CMC) – Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, says she is encouraged by discussions she held with Canadian firms, interested in establishing a presence on the island, as Bridgetown seeks to take advantage of a growing, global, medical marijuana industry.
The Prime Minister said she met with individuals and company officials, in Toronto and Montreal, recently, where the issue of medical marijuana was the main topic.
Canada has fully decriminalised cannabis use, leading to a mushrooming of pharmaceutical industries, tied to the herb. Continue reading
Environment: Stop Polluting our Rivers! – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
– By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
The rivers of the world are dying. Each day tons of waste is dumped in rivers. As the waterways groan and belch under the weight of garbage and chemicals official action takes the form of lip service. Communities suffer and the planet gets closer to the day when the wheels will grind to a halt.
In June 2015, the waters of La Pasion River in Guatemala were covered with dead and poisoned fi sh. It was found that the river was contaminated by malathion, an agricultural insecticide that is said to be 100 times more poisonous than sewage. The community that is affected is Sayaxche where oil plantations occupy large tracts of land.
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