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Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist Avi Nash , American actor Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1
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.
The rotis that Indo-Guyanese typically eat are paratha, dhalpuri, sada roti, dosti roti, aloo roti, and puri. Murgatani (Mulligatawny) and rasam are popular soups in Guyana of South Indian origin. Dosa (dosay or chota) is a filled crepe that is eaten by Indo-Guyanese and is of South Indian origin as well. [18]
Anjulie (born 1983), Canadian singer of Indo-Guyanese descent; Aubrey Cummings (1947-2010), Guyana-born Barbadian musician; Central Cee (born 1998), English rapper of Guyanese and Chinese ancestry; Leona Lewis (born 1985), English singer of Guyanese descent; Lynette Dolphin (1916–2000), musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of ...
Annandale is a community in the Demerara-Mahaica region of Guyana, located on the Atlantic Ocean between Buxton, and Lusignan.Many of the inhabitants originally came from the Lusignan estate, [2] while the former slaves of the plantation, bought the neighbouring Orange Nassau plantation and named it Buxton. [3]
Demographics as of 2012 are Indo-Guyanese 39.8%, Afro-Guyanese 30.1%, mixed race (mostly Dougla) 19.9%, Amerindian 10.5%, other 1.5% (including Chinese and Europeans, such as the Portuguese). As a result, Guyanese do not equate their nationality with race and ethnicity, but with citizenship.
Siargao is a famous tourist destination, well-known for its many surfing spots and featured in the film Siargao for such qualities. Surfing is so ingrained in the identity of Siargao, that in 2022, two political families from Surigao Del Norte traded barbs over the cancellation of a national surfing competition hosted on the island.
The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [ 3 ]