In a few weeks time, I'll be heading out to Poland to launch 'Wild Coast', the book of my travels in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. There were several points in my journey where my path crossed with Poles.... Here are three of them. Can you think of other Polish-Guianese connections?

People living in the Falkland Islands are voting in a referendum on their political status. According to the Falklands legislative assembly, the vote is intended to affirm islanders' desire to remain a self-governing territory of the United Kingdom and to reject claims of ownership by Argentina.

A single-engine seaplane owned by American gold and diamond miner, Mr. Donald Hank, turned turtle and sank in the Demerara River near the Guyana Airways Corporation Ramp on Thursday afternoon.

The pilot who the only occupant of the $30,000 Convair aircraft, was unhurt. Yesterday afternoon,the plane was resurfaced and salvage operations were in progress.

ATLANTA, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation to add additional nonstop flights between Sao Paulo and the key business markets of New York and Atlanta, increasing competition on air service between the U.S. and Brazil.

It is with great sadness that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) learnt of the death of Mr. Hugo Chavez, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on Tuesday 5th March 2013, following his heroic fight with cancer.

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.

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,

Today, on World Book Day, we celebrate the best of books, and it's a great occasion for young and old. But part of the fun of books is evaluating them. You'll hear alot about great books today .. but what about the bad ones? Here is my list of the worst travel books:-

Georgetown Guyana: March 6, 2013 - The Alliance for Change (AFC) shares the grief and loss of the Government and Venezuelan people on the death of President Hugo Chavez.
President Hugo Chavez has been a larger than life leader who, as a true soldier, gave his life in the service of his people, his country and the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean.

For the poor he was a hero, bringing a much-needed redistribution of wealth. For others he was a tyrant, wrecking the economy with populist policies. Either way, he made an indelible impression on his beautiful country, Venezuela (pictured), as a I discovered six years ago.