Guyana
Countries interested in the conservation and protection of natural and cultural heritage sites of the world accede to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by UNESCO in 1972. Guyana is no exception, and signed the treaty in 1977. In fact, Guyana was the first Caribbean State Party to sign the treaty. Sometime in the latter half of the mid-1990s, Guyana seriously began the process of selecting sites for World Heritage nomination and three sites were considered: Kaieteur National Park, Shell Beach and Historic Georgetown. By 1997, work on Kaieteur National Park was started and in 1998 work on Historic Georgetown was begun. To date, however, Guyana has not made a successful nomination.
In 2000[citation needed], Guyana submitted the Kaieteur National Park, including the Kaieteur Falls, to UNESCO as its first World Heritage Site nomination. The proposed area and surrounds have some of Guyana's most diversified life zones with one of the highest levels of endemic species found anywhere in South America. The Kaieteur Falls is the most spectacular feature of the park falling a distance of 226 m and exceeding the height of Niagara Falls (USA/Canada) five times. Unfortunately, the nomination of Kaieteur Park as a World Heritage Site was not successful, primarily because the area was seen by the evaluators as being too small, especially when compared with the Central Suriname Nature Reserve that had just been nominated as a World Heritage Site (2000). The dossier was thus returned to Guyana for revision.
Guyana continues in its bid for a World Heritage Site. Work continues, after a period of hiatus, on the nomination dossier for Historic Georgetown. A Tentative List indicating an intention to nominate Historic Georgetown was submitted to UNESCO in December 2004. There is now a small committee put together by the Guyana National Commission for UNESCO to complete the nomination dossier and the management plan for the site. Recently, in April 2005, two Dutch experts in conservation spent two weeks in Georgetown supervising architecture staff and students of the University of Guyana in a historic building survey of the selected area. This is part of the data collection for the nomination dossier.
Meanwhile, as a result of the Kaieteur National Park being considered too small, there is a proposal to prepare a nomination for a Cluster Site that will include the Kaieteur National Park, the Iwokrama Forest and the Kanuku Mountains. The Iwokrama Rain Forest, an area rich in biological diversity, has been described by Major General (Retired) Joseph Singh as “a flagship project for conservation.” The Kanuku Mountains area is in a pristine state, and is home to more than four hundred species of birds and other animals.
There is much work to be done for the successful nomination of these sites to the World Heritage List. The State, the private sector and the ordinary Guyanese citizens each have a role to play in this process and in the later protection of the sites. Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage will open Guyana to more serious tourists thereby assisting in its economic development.
Guyana exhibits two of the World Wildlife Fund's Global 200 eco-regions most crucial to the conservation of global biodiversity, Guianan moist forests and Guyana Highlands moist forests and is home to several endemic species including the tropical hardwood Greenheart (Chlorocardium rodiei).
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Landmarks
- St. George's Anglican Cathedral
- One of the tallest wooden structures in the world, and the second tallest wooden church after the Todaiji Temple in Japan.
- Demerara Harbour Bridge
- The world's fourth-longest floating bridge (formerly the longest).
- Kaieteur Falls
- One of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Building
- Houses the largest and most powerful political union in the Caribbean.
- Providence Stadium
- Situated in Providence on the east bank of the Demerara River and built in time for the ICC World Cup 2007, it is the largest sports stadium in the country. It is also near the Providence Mall, forming a major spot for leisure in Guyana.
- Guyana International Conference Centre
- Presented as a gift from the People's Republic of China to the Government of Guyana. It is the only one of its kind in the country.
- Stabroek Market
- A large cast-iron colonial structure that looked like a statue was located next to the Demerara River.
- The City Hall
- A beautiful wooden structure also from the colonial era.
- Queen's College
- Top educational intuition in Guyana
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Military
- Forces
- Guyana Defence Force (GDF; includes Ground Forces, Coast Guard, and Air Corps) · Guyana People's Militia (now Defunct);(GPM) · Guyana National Service (now defunct);(GNS) · Guyana Police Force
- Available manpower
- 206,199 males aged 15 to 49, of which 155,058 are fit for service (2002 estimates)
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Miscellaneous
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- The 1856 British Guiana 1c magenta stamp is considered the rarest in the world, with only one copy known to exist.
- The 1959 film Green Mansions, starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, was filmed in Guyana (then British Guiana).
- Guyana is the only South American country where the death penalty is still in use for serious crimes and where male homosexuality is still illegal.
- On November 18, 1978, 913 people (all American) died in the Jonestown Massacre, a mass murder-suicide that took place in the jungle of Northwest Guyana.
- The 1990 edition of the Guinness Book of Records lists the Guyanese-born Sir Lionel Luckhoo as "the world's most successful lawyer." He obtained 245 consecutive acquittals for clients that were accused of murder.
- A Guyanese saying is that if you eat labba and drink black water while visiting Guyana, you are bound to return. (Labba is a small agouti or South American rodent that can be eaten in a dark stew called "pepperpot"; "Black water" is the water found in the many creeks in the interior of Guyana, made black by tannin found in rotting vegetation.)
- Andrew "Six-Heads" Lewis was the first man from Guyana to win a world boxing championship, when he beat James Page to claim the WBA Welterweight Championship of the World.
- Abdul Kadir, a former PNC member of the Guyanese parliament, and Guyanese immigrant Russell Defreitas were arrested on 2 June 2007 for allegedly plotting to blow up fuel lines for New York City airports.
- In March and April 2007 Guyana hosted the Cricket World Cup--the premier event on the Cricket World Calender.
- The video for "Gyasi Went Home", the third single from Sounding a Mosaic, the second album from Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash, was filmed in Guyana. The song and video were inspired by the band's bassist, Eon Sinclair, going back to his parents' hometown and seeing the changes, and the lyrics reference Guyanese history, such as Sir Walter Raleigh's search for gold in the region.
- There is a variation of the Red Tailed Boa Constrictor, named Guyana Red Tail, that hails from this region.
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See also
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Notes and references
- ^ US Declassifed Documents (1964-1968)
- ^ Welcome to guyanachronicle.com
- ^ Guyana to experience ‘massive' oil exploration this year
- ^ Business: News in the Caribbean - Caribbean360.com
- ^ Ishmael, Odeen (1998, rev. 2006) "The Trail Of Diplomacy: A Documentary History of the Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue" Dr. Ishmael was Ambassador of Guyana to Venezuela when this was written.
- ^ Damoiseau, Robert (2003) Eléments de grammaire comparée français-créole guyanais Ibis rouge, Guyana, ISBN 2844501923
- ^ Bureau of Statistics - Guyana, CHAPTER III: POPULATION REDISTRIBUTION AND INTERNAL MIGRATION, Table 3.4: Population Density, Guyana: 1980 - 2002
- ^ Guyana - Government Information Agency, National Profile
- ^ Private Sector Commission
- ^ Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI)
- ^ The government has refused to grant radio licenses to private operators (1998)[citation needed]
- ^ The Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for 93 miles (150 km), 62 miles (100 km), and 50 miles (80 km) respectively.
- ^ Final Version
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Further reading
- Stanley E. Brock, All the Cowboys Were Indians and Jungle Cowboy
- Donald Haack, Bush Pilot In Diamond Country
- Hamish McInnes, Climb To The Lost World (1974)
- Andrew Salkey, Georgetown Journal (1970)
- Marion Morrison, Guyana (Enchantment of the World Series)
- Bob Temple, Guyana
- Noel C. Bacchus, Guyana Farewell: A Recollection of Childhood in a Faraway Place
- Marcus Colchester, Guyana: Fragile Frontier
- Matthew French Young, Guyana: My Fifty Years in the Guyanese Wilds
- Margaret Bacon, Journey to Guyana
- Father Andrew Morrison SJ, Justice: The Struggle For Democracy in Guyana 1952-1992
- Vere T. Daly, The Making of Guyana
- D. Graham Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography and a British El Dorado
- Ovid Abrams, Metegee: The History and Culture of Guyana
- Evelyn Waugh, Ninety-Two Days
- Gerald Durrell, Three Singles To Adventure
- Colin Henfrey, Through Indian Eyes: A Journey Among the Indian Tribes of Guiana
- Stephen G. Rabe, U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story
- Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America
- David Attenborough, Zoo Quest to Guiana (Lutterworth Press, London: 1956)
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- Government
- President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana - Official Website
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - Guyana Country Page
- National Assembly
- Official Website of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA)
- Official Website of the Guyana Office for Investment - GO-Invest
- Government of Guyana National HIV/AIDS Programme - National website providing HIV/AIDS information to health professionals, general public and partners.
- Declassified US State Department documents detailing covert action from the start of postwar independence
- General
- Open Directory Project - Guyana directory category
- Guyana USA - Movement to bring Guyana into the USA as a state
- SDNP Guyana - Guyanese directory and host to ministerial sites
- Guyana YellowPages - Guyana online Yellow Pages business directory.
- BBC profile of Guyana
- Hinduism in Guyana and Suriname
- Map of Guyana - Tourist Destinations
- [3] - U.S. State Department Consular Information Sheet for Guyana with entry requirements and travel information and warnings
- Guyana entry at The World Factbook
- News media
- Guyana Portal
- Guyana and the Caribbean News and Information
- Guyana News and Information One of the most popular websites for current news and information, this site also hosts an email directory of people from the Guyanese Community and Discussion Forum.
- GINA - Government Information Agency. Updated daily.
- The Guyana Chronicle - Local daily government run newspaper.
- Kaieteur news - Local daily independent newspaper.
- Stabroek News - Local daily independent newspaper. Updated daily and maintains archives for 7 days.
- Voice of Guyana International - independent owned Internet radio
- - BBC Caribbean NewsGuyana Suicide rates.
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- Guyana on Google Maps.
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