As West Indies play their 500th Test, Shivnarine Chanderpaul won his 158th Test cap. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the men with most frequent Test appearances for their respective sides.

A Guyanese diaspora volunteer ventures back home to help rural farmers market new products locally – and beyond.

After two hours of travelling by speedboat along riverways into the depths of the rainforest, Clive Gobin finally arrives at a tiny community near Mabaruma, in northwest Guyana, bordering Venezuela.

The Embassy of Guyana is pleased to extend an invitation to all Guyanese to a Reception in honour of His Excellency President Donald Ramotar.

Place: Embassy of Guyana
Address:  2490 Tracy Pl NW, Washington, DC 20008
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2014
Time: 5.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

See invitation for more details

The AFC wants General Elections. The APNU wants Local Government Elections. The PPP wants no election. The AFC and APNU have threatened to take action if their calls are not heeded.  Political parties should be interested in elections for at least two primary reasons-- to get into or remain in political office and to ensure that the rules of engagement are not rigged against them. One can assume that our political parties are of this mindset. The PPP’s position is clear—use its control of the most powerful branch of government to remain in office and to ensure that the current electoral rules are not tampered with.

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Guyanese born Sharon Clarke is Brooklyn's newest Civil Court Judge. On Tuesday September 09, 2014 she won with over 53% of the votes after the Brooklyn residents rallied behind her.

Back in July, Clarke collected the required signatures to become a Civil Court Judge and led a strong campaign that enabled her to win in the September elections.

The ascendancy of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the presidency places Turkey on a trajectory that could usher in a new era unlike any other since the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Earlier today the Benab (officially called the Umana Yana) one of Guyana’s historic buildings was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin.  

The Umana Yana whose name is derived from a Wai-Wai word meaning Meeting Place of the People, was built August 1972 as one of the venues for the Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference held in Georgetown, Guyana that same year. It is located at the northernmost end of Main Street just south of The Pegasus Hotel and is used as a conference and exhibition center.

Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday June 07, 1956, Eugene, Oregon - Mrs. Sylvia V. Collins of Georgetown, British Guiana may have set a record among parents coming for graduation ceremonies at the University of Oregon.

Guyanese Curtural Network of Tampa Bay presents the 12th "Taste of Guyana

Date: September 27, 2014
Time: 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Place: University Area Community Center
Address: 14013 N 22nd Street, Tampa, FL 33613 USA