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Background: Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India to work the sugar plantations. This ethnocultural divide has persisted and has led to turbulent politics. Guyana achieved independence from the UK in 1966, but until the early 1990s it was ruled mostly by socialist-oriented governments. In 1992, Cheddi JAGAN was elected president, in what is considered the country's first free and fair election since independence. Upon his death five years later, he was succeeded by his wife Janet, who resigned in 1999 due to poor health. Her successor, Bharrat JAGDEO, was reelected in 2001.

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By blmoffit
March 1st 2007

South America Bound

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I woke up at the horrible hour of 3:45 a.m. I was barely ready when Dad picked me up at 4:45 to catch our 7 a.m. flight. Leslie drove us to the airport where we met up with Stan Brock, a very nice English jack-of-all-trades. He is the one responsible for starting RAM. He’s been a real South American cowboy, movie/TV star, pilot, and more I am sure. We flew from Knoxville to Orlando to Miami where we met up with three women: Dr. Becky, med student Nicole, and Judy (who is with Wings of Hope, not RAM). We all had [View Full Entry]

By Jason and Jane
November 29th 2006

Weekend on the River and The Falls

South America » Guyana

The Unsatisfied Man
Best mini-bus label we saw in Georgetown, spotted at the toll booth for the Demerara River bridge. Felt the driver wanted something more from life...

Essquibo week-end When we got back into town from the Rupununi we had a day in GT then headed off with Tors and some other GT possee to a beautiful house that we rented just near Bartica… This time there were enough of us to rent almost the whole speedboat for our group alone, meaning we were really riding in style. The house was a fantastic throwback to the days of empire, with bougainvillea along the balconies and a pool. The pictures kinda speak for themselves. We had a really relaxing week-end and shared Katherine’s Birthday. Time was spent in a [View Full Entry]

By Jason and Jane
November 24th 2006

Into the Interior

South America » Guyana

Our Plane in Lethem
Well, this was really all we got to see of Lethem

Guyana - To The Interior After what seemed like ages of trying to find a way into the interior of Guyana, we finally gave up planning and just found an aeroplane going vaguely in our direction and jumped on it. Just before we left we emailed our potential host, at a place called Caiman House, who confirmed she had space for us, and so off we went. We hit the local (interior flights) airport, called Ogle. After being weighed (you know you’re going on a small plane when each kg counts) we were sent to immigration. Immigration was staffed by five [View Full Entry]

By Jason and Jane
November 12th 2006

Guyanan Adventures

South America » Guyana

From the resort in Shankland's
Kinda pretty

Guyana Arrived off the plane to be greeted by Tors (which did give a certain amount of amusement value as the faces of the awaiting taxi drivers fell as we were efficiently whisked off to the awaiting wheels ) and headed off to her house in Duncan Street, Georgetown. Lovely place with big open plan downstairs with kitchen/dinner and then two/three bedrooms upstairs with a balcony, with all mod cons including A/C and running water! It’s only major downside is it’s proximity to the Christian Mission which is directly opposite, and practices extremely loud praising and worsh [View Full Entry]

By erinoq
June 28th 2006

Skipping over to South America...

South America » Guyana

In front of Kaiteur

They say getting there is half the fun right? So my adventure to Guyana started about 16 hours before my flight even left for various reasons. I wanted to go to the festivities welcoming back the soccer team from the world cup and it wasn't a really good idea to travel at night to get my flight at four in the morning. So I was nice and sweaty and just lugged my bag all around town. All went well until I underestimated the length to the airport and instead of getting a taxi walked a good mile and a half with [View Full Entry]

Just so you know how ridiculous I looked in the airport

The little airplane that flew us about for the day

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