An Overland Journey Through Guyana

By Eleanor Hughes Dragoman, a U.K. based overlanding company, brings me to Guyana on a tour which wend its way through Brazil, starting in Rio de Janeiro, French Guiana and Suriname. Disembarking the ferry from Suriname at Moleson Creek I’m soon enjoying views of wooden homes on stilts interspersed with bright concrete plastered homes – […]

Welcome To Banks Country

Since 1956, Banks Breweries Limited, in what was then known as British Guiana, has been producing a unique brew…Banks Beer. Created from malted barley, pure artesian well water, hops, rice and yeast under the most stringent quality control processes, this beverage produced locally remains “Brewery Fresh” and its quality is second to none. A 2018 […]

The South Rupununi Safari

The Outdoors, Adventure and Fun The South Rupununi Safari now in its 6th year is an annual 4 x 4 convoy of vehicles which takes place annually in November. The convoy takes off from Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown through the mining town of Linden and ends at Achiwuib Village in Region Nine. Organised by […]

Community Tourism

Karasabai in Focus Across Guyana, there exists a number of sparsely populated settlements and Amerindian Communities over a massive area of land that encompasses rainforests, wetlands and savannahs in some of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. The Indigenous Communities are small villages of 250 to 1,500 people who rely mainly on subsistence […]

Winslow Craig – Guyana’s Sculptor Extraordinaire

By Lola Chan-a-Sue Winslow Craig is a Guyanese sculptor whose natural talent manifested at an early age and blossomed with formal training at the ER Burrowes School of Art in Georgetown. He works in many media, like metal, wood, and bronze, and is known for his invention of a new medium for sculpture: “sawdoue” an […]

Exploring Guyana

Where Nature and Wildlife Thrive By Kevin Hand I confess I knew nothing about Guyana until my friend PJ asked me what wildlife he might encounter on a visit. I looked into this and realised there was a lot to see, and that the percentage of rainforest here was larger than any other country I […]

Indeed The Biggest Party in Sport

By: Avenash Ramzan “CPL T20 Cricket has been exceptionally well received in Guyana with fantastic crowd support where the local fans demonstrate their passion for cricket and show their national colours and unending vocal support for the local home based franchise – the Guyana Amazon Warriors. The CPL T20 League has been promoted across the […]

Dr Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Guyana and West Indies Cricket Icon – A Man of Outstanding Numbers If numbers had an owner it would be Shivnarine Chanderpaul. This Guyanese batting legend, born and raised in the rustic countryside village of Unity on the East Coast Demerara, has fashioned a cricketing career that is a statistician’s delight. When he started his […]

The Undiscovered Jewel – Guyana

I have lived in Ecuador, South America for 32 years and have travelled the continent extensively. One destination that retains an inexplicable calling is Guyana. Having published arguably the two most important coffee-table books on the country, I have been privileged to have travelled its length and breadth by road, boat and helicopter. The continent’s […]