The Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of APNU, Hon. David A. Granger, MP, the Executive Council and the members of APNU welcomed the new Region No. 1 (Barima-Waini) MP, Ms. Rennita Lolita Williams. Ms. Williama who hails from Santa Rosa, Moruca in Region No. 1 replaced MP Mr. Richard who who resigned on Tuesday, days after he collapsed in the National Assembly.

Most of this is from an entry in a diary I kept when I was 17 - 19 in Guyana.

Sunday 1st Feb. 1981, Moblissa Dairy Farm, Soesdyke - Linden Highway. - I arrived at Moblissa Dairy Farm last Wednesday from Ebini Ranch via Georgetown. The 'Milk Truck', a monster tanker lorry that transports the farm’s milk to Georgetown was quite a ride. I’d left my previous training assignment at Ebini Ranch in the Intermediate Savannahs for Moblissa to continue training for management at the Livestock Development Company. My dream job, an entry level management position as a LIDCO Ranch Supervisor (assistant ranch manager).

The gods were smiling yesterday as the first, and hopefully annual, Guyanese Kite Flying Picnic event got underway at the Centennial Park in Columbia, Maryland. The picnic saw hundreds of people over the course of several hours flying kites, eating good food and just enjoying a beautiful day.

This story is based on an entry I made in a journal in 1978. Hugh Allan Yearwood

Stan Brock, was my number one hero when I was a teenager and I’m sorry I never met him. When I first heard of him British Guiana was now Guyana and he was the long gone ex-manager of one of the most remote and largest cattle ranches in the world. During his time as a cowboy in the Amazon 4,000 of British Guiana’s 83,000 sq. miles were Dadanawa cattle range.

Guyanese Sandra Chapman, Deputy Borough President of Brooklyn, NY, and Dr. Monique Davidson-Tucker shared their Sunday evening, March 24, 2013, in the distinguishable company of 14 other honorees at the Tropical Paradise Banquet Hall, 1370 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn.

Remarks by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin Larocque on the occasion of the presentation of credentials by his Excellency Luis Fernando Ayala plenipotentiary representative of Chile to the Caribbean Community, Georgetown, Guyana.

My Aunt Esther was a black working-class Londoner, born before World War 1. Her life spanned almost the entire century (1912 to 1994).

Her father, Joseph Bruce, settled in Fulham, west London, during the Edwardian era when very few black people lived in Britain. He came here from British Guiana (now Guyana) a colony in South America. He was a proud, independent man.

U.S. Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana Brent D. Hardt and Guyana’s Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn signed an Open Skies air services agreement on March 25 in Georgetown, Guyana, formalizing the liberalization of the bilateral aviation relationship between both nations. The Open Skies agreement entered into force upon signature.

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).

Guyanese were treated to a spectacular airshow by a Brazilian aerobatic squadron on Sunday March 24, 2013.

The Brazilian Air force Aerial Demonstration Squadron (Portuguese: Esquadrão de Demonstração Aérea), popularly known as Smoke Squadron (Portuguese: Esquadrilha da Fumaça) was a 20 man team with 7 performing Embraer EMB-312 Tucano turboprop trainer and one C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.