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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
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 ...
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.
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).
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]
Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana, 1980-1985; Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, father of the trade union movement in British Guiana; Cuffy, leader of the Berbice slave uprising; Karen de Souza (born 1958), women and children's activist; Jack Gladstone, leader of the Demerara rebellion of 1823; David A. Granger, President of Guyana
Indigenous peoples in Guyana, Native Guyanese or Amerindian Guyanese are Guyanese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 9.16% of Guyana's population. [1] Amerindians are credited with the invention of the canoe, [2] as well as Cassava-based dishes and Guyanese pepperpot, the national dish of Guyana.
The rich natural history of Guyana was described by early explorers Sir Walter Raleigh and Charles Waterton and later by naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Gerald Durrell. In 2008, the BBC broadcast a three-part programme called Lost Land of the Jaguar which highlighted the huge diversity of wildlife, including undiscovered species and rare ...