With few good beaches in Java, many thousands of Indonesians head to Bali, not to mention millions of other Asians and Australians. I stopped by a couple of years ago. It's an unforgettable island, with sights like the vertiginous Uluwatu Temple (pictured, along with its spectacle-stealing monkeys), the Jatiluwih rice terraces, and the famous surfing beaches of Padang Padang and Dreamland.

What happens to a large army's equipment, after it's too old for active service. The US army must produce thousands of vehicles each year.

Yesterday, my train went though Market Harborough (UK) and I saw a field full of old Bedford trucks, in camouflage colours.

A Redhill Brownies group leader is set for a “golden” trip of a lifetime this summer when she will take part in an important community development scheme in Guyana.

On the day of the Jonestown massacre in November 1978, three native Texans played significant roles.

Sixty-year-old Christine Miller, born in Brownsville, is heard on the infamous "death tape" trying to negotiate with Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones to save the lives of more than 900 people. With incredible courage and dignity, she calmly suggests alternatives to drinking poison in a display of "revolutionary suicide."

The merger of Russia’s two largest gold producers could create a company on par with Canadian bullion digger Goldcorp (NYSE:GG,TSX:G), according to recent reports.

MINING.com reported that a combination of Polyus Gold (LSE:PGIL) and Polymetal International (LSE:POLY) is a likely outcome of last week’s news that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is selling a 37-percent stake in Polyus to an unnamed group of investors selected by billionaire Suleiman Kerimov’s Nafta Moskva, which holds a 40-percent stake in Polyus.

John Gimlette the author of "The Wild Coast" a book about Guyana, Suriname and Guyane Francaise will soon be published in Polish.

John has kindly contributed his blogs about his escapades and are published on under John Gimlette's Voyages

This is the map on the wall of the manager's office, on the Wales Sugar Estate, Guyana. For me it's a treasure trove of old names.

I'd been looking for the estate described by a Georgian traveller, called Bolingbroke.

A judge in Guyana's high court has ruled that indigenous groups do not have the right to expel legal miners from their land. The judge, Diana Insanally, found that if the miners in question held a government-approved license than the local community had no right to dispute the mining. The ruling has sparked protests by indigenous groups and is expected to be appealed.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jan 30, CMC – Guyana has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development which supports the extension of the current quota provisions until 30 September 2020.

Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has described the decision to extend the sugar quota from 2015 to 2020 as a “welcomed decision.

The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $22.3 billion (Table 1) and core operating earnings (non-GAAP) that increased by 9 percent to $1.8 billion, driven by strong performance across the company's businesses and higher deliveries of commercial airplanes.