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Don Harris (September 8, 1936 – November 18, 1978) was an NBC News correspondent who was killed after departing Jonestown, an agricultural commune owned by the Peoples Temple in Guyana. On November 18, 1978, he and four others (including Leo Ryan) were killed by gunfire by Temple members at a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, Guyana.
Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1] [2] people died at the settlement; at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma; and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. [3]
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 Culture; Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), conductor, composer, musician
Image credits: Bettmann / gettyimages #3 Connie Converse. Elizabeth Eaton Converse, most commonly known by her stage name Connie, is often hailed as one of the first modern singer-songwriters, and ...
Guyana is home to people of many different national, ethnic and religious origins. As of 2019, there are 231,649 Guyanese Americans currently living in the United States. The majority of Guyanese live in New York City – some 140,000 – making them the fifth-largest foreign-born population in the city.
David A. Granger, President of Guyana; Hamilton Green, 1st Muslim Prime Minister of Guyana, and in the Western world, 1985-1992; Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana, 1985-1992; Sam Hinds, former President of Guyana, Prime Minister of Guyana; Eusi Kwayana, former Guyanese cabinet member and veteran politician; Lincoln Lewis, trade union leader
As a result of Guyana's 170-year history as a British colony, it is a part of the Anglophone world and part of the Anglophone Caribbean – a subregion of the Caribbean consisting of independent, English-speaking nations that were once British colonies (also known as the Commonwealth Caribbean).
The first people to reach Guyana made their way from Siberia, perhaps as far back as 20,000 years ago. These first inhabitants were nomads who slowly migrated south into Central and South America. At the time of Christopher Columbus's voyages, Guyana's inhabitants were divided into two groups, the Arawak along the coast and the Carib in the ...