Ms. Deborah Barocas author of " Guyana's Tasty Exotic" presented Shivnarine Chanderpaul with her Cookbook at a press conference at Resorts Casino in Queens. Ms. Barocas is a food enthusiast who constantly writes and creates recipes and food products.

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.”

London-based Whitefox Technologies Ltd. recently announced that it has secured an ethanol contract with the government of Guyana. Together with its Brazilian partner, Green, Whitefox Technologies will install a demonstration plant at the Guyana Sugar Corp. Albion Sugar Factory. According to information released by the company, the turnkey unit is scheduled for delivery in early 2013.

Attorney-General (AG) Mr. Anil Nandlal hastily withdrew from the case he had filed against Brigadier David Granger, Leader of the Opposition and Mr. Raphael Trotman, Speaker of the National Assembly.

The AG, on the 3rd December 2012, filed a Notice of withdrawal and discontinuance in the High Court of the Supreme Court in Action No. 69/CM of 2012.

A new genus and species of a weakly armoured plec has been described from the upper Mazaruni River in northwestern Guyana. and was named by Jonathan Armbruster and Donald Taphorn as Paulasquama callis

Squirrel monkeys are found in South and Central America in countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, French Guyana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Paraguay, and Venezuela. They like rainforests and can learn to adapt to different kinds of rainforests.

Each year when Easter rolls around, I am always searching and tweaking various hot cross buns recipes trying to come up with something that I like, something that suits my taste. There have been hits and misses. Some years I have been determined not to bother making cross buns. But when the time comes around, I can't seem to help myself, and so I give in.

Goliath birdeaters are the largest spider in the world with legspans of twelve inches and weights of 5 or 6 ounces possible! This species of Goliath spider from Guyana has recently been described as a third species of Theraphosa — Theraphosa stirmi .

Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. Newsletter - Amerindian Heritage Month - November 20, 2012 Vol.2 Issue 11

John Gimlette has graciously agreed to have us publish some of his articles in a blog titled "John Gimlette's Voyages." Below is his biography. Read his articles at John Gimlette's Voyages. More about John can be found at "John's website"