Dr. Richard Cambridge Adviser to the Regional Vice President, African Diaspora Program at The World Bank
Richard Cambridge, a Guyanese national, joined the World Bank in 1973 through the Young Professionals Program. He was appointed to his current position, where he leads the Africa Region's work program with the Diaspora, in 2009.
E. R. Braithwaite, author of "To Sir, With Love"
Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1912) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana.
Aubrey Cummings - Musician and Vocalist
Birth Aubrey Cummings was born in the year 1947 and grew up in the Alberttown / Queenstown neighbourhoods of Georgetown, Guyana Discovered talent His decision to develop a career in pop music was influenced by Michael Bacchus and the Heartbreakers. The magic of popular music and show business excited him, and he took up the guitar. He is a self-taught guitarist.
Guyanese American Michelle Godette Sworn In As Mission Director to Guinea And Sierra Leone
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Michelle Godette was sworn in today August 01, 2013 as the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission Director to Guinea and Sierra Leone. The mission is based in Conakry, Guinea, but supports programs in both Guinea and Sierra Leone in agriculture, democracy and human rights, environment, gender equality, and global health.
Edward Theophilus Nelson: October 22, 1874 – August 03, 1940 (Guyanese) first West Indian to be called to the Bar in England
Edward Theophilus Nelson was born 22 October 1874 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) where his father Philip was a builder. He was educated at St. Philips School, Demerara and came to Oxford in 1898 to read law at St. John’s College (the wealthiest college in Oxford, with estates stretching to Cambridge).
Laid bare, our merry monarch: Queen gets the giggles as she hands poetry medal to John Agard
One was clearly most amused.
Her Majesty saw the funny side yesterday as she presented a poetry award - which has an image of a naked woman on the back.
The monarch shared a laugh with John Agard, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, as she presented him with the honour at Buckingham Palace.
Deborah Persaud, M.D Associate professor, pediatric infectious diseases, JHUSOM, Elizabeth Glaser Scientist
Deborah Persaud was born on August 23, 1960 in Guyana, South America.
She left Guyana at the age of 16 and moved to Brooklyn, NY in the Bushwick neighborhood with her mother and three siblings. After completing high school she attended York College (CUNY) where she obtained a BA in Education.
Dr. Leon C. Wilson, Guyanese, has been named interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at ASU
Dr. Leon C. Wilson, formerly the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, has been named interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Alabama State University. Wilson has served as dean of ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences since 2011.
From the rice fields of Guyana to a Brevard County bench - By Jan Pudlow
Relegated to ride the steamer in the lower deck with livestock and poor people of Guyana, cow dung splattered on his beautiful mother’s orhni headdress.
While his mother took the indignity in stride, A.B. Majeed describes an anger that “burnt in me.”
Dr. Wilfred Chan: Natural Products Chemistry Pioneer
"He was internationally recognised and was considered the leading organic research chemist in the English-speaking Caribbean from the mid-60s to the mid-80s. Just about every natural products chemist at UWI across the region and outside can trace his/her lineage to Professor Chan." Professor Anderson Maxwell