David Defreitas was Guyana's top cyclist of 1966 - News article from Guyana Graphic Friday January 06, 1967
Twenty Six year old David Defreitas was Guyana's most outstanding cyclist of 1966. This assessment is based on his performance at the Texaco, Central American and Commonwealth Games and at local meetings.
This article is one in a series from a research program Guyana Graphic is undertaking to recover historical documents about Guyana.
The end of the river, and the end of a great revolt
This is New Amesterdam (Guyana), where the Berbice enters the sea. Here is a great, blank estuary, the colour of sharpened knives. I remember thinking how bright it seemed, and how the only shapes were two straggly lines of attenuating mangrove. Out in the glare nothing moved except dolphins, forming soundless hoops of pink and grey, before vanishing in rings.
A Message from the National Congress of Women On International Women’s Day 2013
The National Congress of Women (NCW), the women’s arm of the People’s National Congress Reform, salutes all women in Guyana and throughout the world as International Women’s Day,
The Chinese arrive on the Wild Coast
Across the Guianas, there have been Chinese immigrants since the 1830s. They were orginally brought in as labourers (or Coolies), and even today in Guyana they make up 0.2% of the population.
It's been a curious relationship with the locals. In French Guiana,
A long-lost outpost of Jamaica
For years, it was hard to get to Costa Rica's easterly province, Talamanca. Along its long, sandy, coconutted shore, there are few villages. Before the road came, the only people who’d lived here were BríBri Indians and a few turtle-hunters, who’d wandered over from Jamaica many generations ago. Caught between the jungle and riptides, most people had settled down to a life of ease.
Castellani House
The home of a self-styled African king, in South America. This is Castellani House, in Georgetown (Guyana). For many years, it was the presidential home of a man who called himself 'the kubaka' (a Bugandan term, denoting royal status). He was Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.
Music and photos from Mash 2013
Linden’s Lester ‘De Professor’ Charles won the 2013 Mash Calypso Crown with a song titled "God nah Sleep" backed by Mingles Sound Machine at Demerara Park.
A life of song and frogs
Sadly, I am told that the Benedictine monastery near Bartica (Guyana) has now closed. A few years ago, it was a memorable stay.
Before long, I was part of the clockwork of monastery life. There were only two brothers, Pascal and Matthias, and an elderly abbot called Hildebrand (see photo).
The history of the Wild Coast in ten objects - 10
You might think it odd to describe a bridge as an object. However, the pontoon bridge over the Demerara River (Guyana) is just than: a moveable, detachable thing. In fact, it's said to be the longest pontoon bridge in the world.
The history of the Wild Coast in ten objects - 9
This huge gun is all that remains of 'American Guiana'. By mid-1940, the USA was worried. After years of neutrality, Americans now found themselves being drawn into a new world conflict. Apart from Britain, Europe was almost entirely under Nazi control. Worse, in the Caribbean, Europe’s old colonies were looking decidedly vulnerable.