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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.
The following list of Guyanese artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Guyana, of Guyanese descent or who produce works that are primarily about Guyana.
The convention centre was constructed in 2006, and was initially named Guyana International Conference Centre. [4] The convention centre is a gift from the People's Republic of China , and became the preferred location for venues, [ 4 ] and was often used by CARICOM for conferences.
Guyana-born author Jan Carew's 1958 novel Black Midas involves a boy leaving his coastal village to become a pork-knocker. [12] Sheik Sadeek, a novelist and playwright, produced stories about Guyana's colonial era working class, [ 13 ] and often used pork-knockers as the subject of his works, including the play Porkknockers .
Newspaper City Founded Publisher Notes URL; Guyana Chronicle [1] [2]: Georgetown: 1975 Guyana National Newspaper Ltd. Government-owned. guyanachronicle.com: Village Voice Guyana [3] ...
Companies of Guyana (3 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 9 February 2020, at 18:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Port Mourant is a town on the Atlantic coast in East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. It is the birthplace of the late president Cheddi Jagan as well as many of Guyana's most famous cricketers. Port Mourant was originally a sugar estate. Many residents are self-employed, but the sugar industry continues to be a source of employment.
Aranaputa is an Amerindian village [1] in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region 9), Guyana. It is located in the Pacaraima Mountains . Village in Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana