Guyanese OnlineThis year we had an excellent response to our call for submissions.
It is our privilege to host poets and readers from Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago as well as Guyana.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and NEHGS Researcher Meaghan Siekman
Dear Professor Gates: RE the Rohlehr family
I am a first-generation American whose family hails from Guyana (and, further back, Germany). My father has a German last name: Rohlehr (pronounced “Rohlair”). I would like to know more about my ancestors in that line who first came to Guyana from either Germany or the Netherlands.
The story goes that during the Bismarck era in Germany, my ancestor Gertrude Rohlehr had seven sons. Six were killed in war, so she sent her remaining son, Swartz, away from Germany to save him. He made his way to New Amsterdam, Guyana, from Holland, where he ended up having two sons, Peter and John, with an unknown African woman. Continue reading
USA: The 10 Most Asian Cities in the United States – video
See YouTube comments here: USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdHSIRTvXDY
Comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThjKOeAV_g
Eco Travellers is a nature documentary following two travelers (both local and foreign) sharing the unique experience of Guyana’s eco tourism destinations within the Rupununi. Along their journey they learn that the country’s tourism model is strongly linked with the conservation of biodiversity and the natural environment.
‘Let Mashramani 2023 reflect camaraderie and oneness’ – PPP
WORLD: ONE World Government INCOMING… !!! – By Neil McCoy-Ward – video
Comments on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51NnGjvORU
Green Heart – video – by Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions (CATS)
Comments on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upXygwTU0Ow
‘Green Heart’ is a recommendable film on sustainable tropical forestry in the Green Heart of Guyana, where greenheart (Chlorocardium rodiei) timber, which is native to Guyana and neighboring Suriname, is being harvested by the ‘Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development’ (IIC).
‘Green Heart’ was commissioned by the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit’ (GIZ) GmbH through the ‘Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions’ (CATS) program and financed by the ‘German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development’ (BMZ). CATS is a regional development cooperation program jointly carried out by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and GIZ.
GUYANA: IMBOTERO RESEARCH CENTER : Merging Coastal Communities
GUYANA: IMBOTERO RESEARCH CENTER : Merging Coastal Communities & Science
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