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Issano is a village of Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region 7), Guyana. It is located along the Mazaruni River, and is a hub for mining. In 2012, the population was 220. [2] Issano is a mostly Amerindian community. It has a primary school (Saint Martin's [3]), health centre [4] and airstrip (ICAO: SYIS [5]). [6]
This is a list of post-secondary institutions in the country of Guyana. Schools are listed in alphabetical order and includes non-tertiary , vocational institutions . Universities and colleges in Guyana include
Central High School was founded in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1927 by Joseph Clement Luck, and became the largest private educational establishment in the country, providing both primary and secondary education. [1] [2]
English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American country with English as the official language. [1] [2] The Umana Yana in Georgetown; the name means "Meeting place of the people" in Waiwai. Guyanese Creole (an English-based creole with African, Indian, and Amerindian syntax) is widely spoken in Guyana. [1]
The drive is organised in collaboration with Guyana Red Cross and the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS). [5] In 2015, the school signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Jinshan Middle School in Fuzhou, China making Marian Academy the first school in Guyana to have a sister school in China. In 2019, 20 students from Marian visited Jinshan.
Fort Wellington is a village located in the Mahaica-Berbice region of Guyana, serving as its regional capital. It is located on the west coast of Berbice and about 54 miles from Georgetown . Public services include Fort Wellington Hospital, a primary school, a secondary School, [ 2 ] a police station, magistrate's court, National Insurance ...
The Catholic Church in Guyana is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Bishops in Guyana are members of Antilles Episcopal Conference . Like most other nations that form the AEC, the Apostolic delegate to the bishops' conference is also the Apostolic nuncio to the country, currently American ...
Before the arrival of European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basins in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by ...