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With 215,000 square kilometres (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the fourth-smallest country on mainland South America after Uruguay, Suriname and French Guiana. The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (production of rice and Demerara sugar ), bauxite mining, gold mining, timber, shrimp fishing and minerals.
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is a Pennsylvania corporation incorporated in 1891. [2] It is an international designer and manufacturer of wall and ceiling building materials. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , AWI has a global manufacturing network of 26 facilities, including nine plants dedicated to its WAVE joint venture.
In 2012, Armstrong offered 2016: Obama's America for free to its customers. In that same year, Armstrong donated over $1 million in the form of "in-kind cable access" to American Crossroads, a Republican Super PAC. [2] Armstrong also donated $40,000 to Fight for the Dream PAC, a Super PAC that opposed the re-election of Senator Bob Casey. [3]
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) is the largest trade union in Guyana.It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union.After failing in the 1950s it was reformed as the Guyana Sugar Workers' Union in 1961 but changed its name to Guyana Agricultural Workers' Union in 1962 before becoming the GAWU later that decade.
The economy of Guyana is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 19.9% in 2021. [9] In 2024, Guyana had a per capita gross domestic product ( purchasing power parity ) of Int$ 80,137 and an average GDP growth of 4.2% over the previous decade. [ 4 ]
Operating and proposed projects in the Stabroek block. Esso, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, began exploring the off-shore region in 2008. [10] In May 2015 ExxonMobil announced discovery of more than 90 metres of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs about 200 km off the coastline, [11] considered to be one of the largest crude oil discoveries of the past decade. [12]
John Meredith Ford (1923 – November 18, 1995) was a Guyanese businessman and politician who served as the Lord Mayor of Georgetown, Guyana from 1970 to 1972. During his time in office, Guyana transitioned from a monarchy under the rule of Elizabeth II to the Co‑operative Republic of Guyana, an independent member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Upon graduation, Jagan found his employment options in Guyana limited to agricultural work or converting to Christianity and becoming a teacher, so his father sent him to the United States to study dentistry [7] with $500, the family's life savings, so that he would not end up in the cane fields and he would not have to compromise his Hindu ...