The ancestors who vanished, somewhere in South America. Most madeirans that I met had no idea that a large body of their ancestors had gone to Guyana (or British Guiana as it was was). They're aware of the Venezuelan connection but the rest of the continent is rather vague. Several people were sure that Guyana was in Africa ...

Too little water, everything dies; too much, it drowns. In Guyana, the problem for farmers has often managing the country's vast reserves of water; draining swamps, maintaining channels; stabilising the watertable.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) A Chinese state-owned company plans to develop a timber-processing plant for logs it harvests in the rain forest of western Guyana.

A spokesman for Bin Shan Forest Development says the plant will be part of a larger industrial park that the company will develop in Linden, the second-largest town in the South American country.

The Consular Section of the U.S Embassy will be closed to the public on Friday, January 18, 2013 and Friday, January 25, 2013 for our annual training exercise.

Only emergency services for U.S. citizens can be processed on those days.

Visa Applicants may use the Drop Box to submit requested documents.

The Madeirans immigrants will have been astonished by the remoteness and the emptiness of the British Guiana in 1835. It was the size of the Great Britain, and yet - under its recent Dutch masters - only 10% of it had been explored. It's borders had yet to be defined, and enormous features like the Kaieteur Falls were still unknown to the outside world.

Life in the Guyanese interior has always been tough, and the hunters there will have seen plenty of danger. But for the Madeirans, no hunt was as dangerous, as remarkable or as cruel as the one they'd left behind: the whale hunt.

For the Madeirans arriving in Guyana, the wild life must have been bewildering. Madeira has no indigenous land mammals at all, no poisonous creatures, and no snakes. By contrast, Guyana has the biggest ants in the world, and the biggest freshwater fish.

Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela: Husband, Father, Political Resistance Leader, Prisoner of Apartheid, Lawyer, President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei, on July 18, 1918, to Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AlertNet) – Guyana is pushing forward on protecting its rich inland forests as a source of income but is investing too little money in helping its low-lying coastal regions prepare for and adapt to climate change, national and international experts say.

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor.