Georgetown (Guyana): The Guyana government has condemned the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for sending two directors to witness recent general elections of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

This painting depicts the naturalist, Charles Waterton (1782-1865) wrestling with a caiman somewhere in the interior. The background depicts an earthly paradise, with trees resplendent with birds.

Natik Fataliev from Liverpool was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work after admitting to selling wild birds at one of Britain’s biggest aviculture shows.

Fataliev, originally from Azerbaijan, admitted six charges linked to the possession and selling of illegal birds, including Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch and Yellowhammer.

Here's something you MUST do before you die; stay with the Macushi tribe on the Burro-Burro river (Guyana). The river itself is like streak of blackened glass sliding away, off through the trees. There, high on a bluff, you sling your hammocks in the Mucushis' shelter (see photo), and eat some catfish. It tastes of trout with an extra dollop of pond.

I will never forget Lino Oviedo, a character I came across during my travels in Paraguay in 1999. I was there at about the time of an attempted coup, during which a tank rolled into Asuncion's main square and took a pot shot at the legislature (see photo). Lino was thought to have been behind it.

Nzinga Knight is a New York native fashion designer whose line, Nzinga Knight, launched in 2008. Nzinga studied fashion design and fine art at the prestigious Pratt Institute School of Design in New York City where she received a BFA in fashion design (class of 2005).

International non-government organization Transparency International has published its annual report called Corruption Perceptions Index that shows corruption level in different countries.

This is old Dutch fortress, built right out in the middle of the Essequibo, in 1744. Back then, the tiny islet was called Vlaggen Eyland, or ‘Flag Island’. These days its called Fort Island.

An 18-year old youth mining for gold in a tunnel in South Rupununi was killed when it caved in and trapped him underneath on Sunday.

Police said Thycuf Xavier died following the accident at the Mazda Mountain, Marudi, South Rupununi.

(ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE) -- Made up naturally, with her hair tightly pulled back into a simple ponytail and donning a pin of the Golden Arrowhead-- the very beautiful Miss Guyana World 2012 Arti Cameron, hosted by fellow Guyanese Mr. Ronald (Rocky) Hall, stepped into the United Nations Office in Cote d’Ivoire (ONUCI).