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Guyana Times [5] Georgetown: 6 June 2008 News site. guyanatimesgy.com: Kaieteur News [6] Georgetown: Private daily. kaieteurnewsonline.com: The Official Gazette of Guyana [7] Georgetown: Official country Gazette [8] officialgazette.gov.gy: Stabroek News: Georgetown: 1986 [9] Private daily. (Absorbed The Guyana Review; est 1993) stabroeknews.com ...
On 6 December 2023, a Bell 412EP helicopter operated by the Guyana Defence Force crashed in western Guyana, killing five out of the seven on board. [1] The crash happened about 30 miles east of Arau near the Venezuelan border. [2] The helicopter carried senior GDF military officers, and was reportedly conducting "border operations". [3]
In the 20th century, crime in Guyana was not properly documented, however the country was known to be extremely dangerous and violent [citation needed].The chart below shows the Guyanese homicide rate from 1990 until 2020, [1] where Guyana reported a peak intentional homicide rate of 28 murders per 100,000 in 2003 and a low of 10 murders per 100,000 in 2000.
Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica , region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River . It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean."
Guyana, [b] officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic British West Indies. [ 11 ] [ 5 ] [ 12 ] Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
With a land area of 214,969 km 2 (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state by area in mainland South America after Uruguay and Suriname, and is the second-least populous sovereign state in South America after Suriname; it is also one of the least densely populated countries on Earth.
The Stabroek News is a privately owned newspaper published in Guyana.It takes its name from Stabroek / ˈ s t æ b r uː k /, the former name of Georgetown, Guyana.. It was first published in November 1986, first as a weekly but it later changed to a daily print newspaper. [1]
The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]