Search

Exxon Mobil Corp. has approved its sixth oil development project in Guyana, which will make the country a larger crude producer than Venezuela. The Whiptail project will cost $12.7 billion and is expected to produce about 250,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2027. This growth in oil production has significant social and economic implications for Guyana, allowing the government to invest in welfare and infrastructure. Exxon plans to drill 48 wells and use a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel to support the project. Guyana's production growth is expected to slow down after the Whiptail project, but Exxon has the potential for more projects in the future. [Extracted from the article]

Objective. To determine predictors associated with physical violence during pregnancy, and to determine the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy and women's health and suicide ideation in Guyana. Methods. A secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional household survey. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to the data to estimate the association between physical violence during pregnancy, controlling partner behavior, and other predictors. Ordered logistic regression models were fitted to estimate the association between physical violence during pregnancy and women's health, and lifetime physical partner violence and overall health. Logistic regression models were fitted to estimate associations between physical violence during pregnancy and lifetime physical partner violence and overall health and suicide ideation. Results. The prevalence of lifetime physical/sexual intimate partner violence was 38.8%, current physical/sexual intimate partner violence 11.1%, and violence during pregnancy 9.2%. Controlling partner behavior was significantly and positively associated with maternal experience of physical violence during pregnancy. Experiencing physical partner violence during pregnancy, but not lifetime physical partner violence, was associated with significantly increased odds of poor overall health. Physical violence during pregnancy and lifetime physical violence were both significantly associated with increased odds of suicide ideation. Conclusions. The prevalence of violence during pregnancy in Guyana is high and is associated with adverse health outcomes. These findings suggest the need for intimate partner violence prevention, and for integrating intimate partner violence screening and treatment into antenatal care, reproductive health services, and maternal and child health programs and services to identify and treat at-risk women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil may have to mediate a crisis between Venezuela and Guyana over the disputed region of Essequibo, which is rich in oil. Lula, who has positioned himself as an independent arbiter in global conflicts, is concerned about having to mediate in a regional conflict. Brazil's main concern is to avoid a war near its border, as tensions escalate between Venezuela and Guyana. Lula is expected to push for a negotiated solution through diplomatic channels to defuse the situation. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers travel tips for the French Guiana in France and includes information on trips to the Beirut, Lebanon, the Big Island, Hawaii; and Dakar, Senegal with lots of music scenes.

According to the executive council of AFL-CIO, the so-called trade unions of Soviet Union are nothing but agencies of communist dictatorship. This implies that the unions in The U.S. are anything but agencies of government and big business. British Guiana is a good place to begin. The situation in British Guiana is far more complicated than that and its generous aid has involved the AFL-ClO in racial and political strife. In addition, not all the aid given by the AFL-CIO has come from the labor treasury. In British Guiana, as elsewhere in Latin America, the AFL-CIO has operated with money supplied by the United States Government and big business.

The article discusses international reports and reporting. Friendly relations have for many years past subsisted between the citizens of the United States and the colonists of British Guiana. This good understanding in fact, is the result of a long continued trade between the two countries, to their mutual advantage. That trade was at first, carried on between Dutch colonists in what was in those days, a part of Dutch Guiana, and British colonists in what afterwards became the United States of America.

The article focuses on the various comments made by Cheddi Jagan, legislative leader of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) and L. Burnham, chairman of the PPP on British Guiana. It was proposed by both of them, that schools should try to alter the content of instruction, placing great emphasis on practical subjects and scholastic studies. It has long been run by, and interests of the three companies in control of the sugar industry, upon which, along with rice farming, the bulk of the people depend.

The article relates the author's experience in plant hunting trip to Mount Kotika in the South American jungle of Guiana in search for Passiflora. The botanical purpose of the expedition was to undertake a floristic study and collect live material and herbarium specimens. He used different strategies to locate Passiflora including following long-winged Heliconius butterfly.

The article explores the history of snakewood, noting the age through the use of microscopic wood analysis. It is highlighted that snakewood are different South American and West Indian timbers such as Guianas which are used for English furniture since 1904. Anglo-Dutch style of geometric molded decoration was applied using snakewood as facing or thick veneer. John Evelyn's furniture are also noted which is said to represent a different furniture design from the standard English archaic design of joiners.

Explains the research and detective work that has led scientists to believe in the existence of a small lizard in the genus Gymnophthalmus, in the Guiana region of northern South America, even though no one has ever seen it. Description of what it might look like and its habitat; Genetic evidence for the species; Research and lines of reasoning by herpetologists.

Focuses on the political activities in British Guiana as of March 1966. Formation of People's Progressive Party (PPP) by dentist Cheddi Jagan; Performance of PPP in the colony's first election in 1953; Political activities within the party before 1957.

Focuses on author's experiences of his journey to British Guiana to study about fishes found in the region. Hospitality shown by people of the region towards the author; Number of species of fishes found in the region; Features of Symbranchus found in the region.

Focuses on author's journey to the British Guiana to see the Kaieteur Fall. Spectacle of the waterfall; Geographical description of the waterfall; Feelings of author regarding the journey.

Provides information about the Guiana. Civilization of the region; Type of languages used among the descendants; Food.

Focuses on author's journey to waterfalls and mountains of Roraima, Guiana. Experiences of the author regarding his night stays at the region; Scenic description of Kaieteur waterfall; Hospitality shown by local people to the author.

Focuses on the expedition by the author to British Guiana to study characteristics of the bird Hoatzin. Food of the bird; Breeding habits of the bird; Threat faced by the bird.

Focuses on the author's journey to the British Guiana to study the courtship behavior of bird Rupicola rupicola. Efforts done by the author to observe the behavior of the bird; Features of the bird; Breeding habits of the bird.

Examines the possible effects of the decision of British Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys to have new elections held in British Guiana on the basis of proportional representation, on the People's Progressive Party (PPP) of Guianan Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan in March 1964. Significance of proportional representation to the political opponents of the PPP; Group which support PPP; Efforts of Jagan to block the implementation of the new elections scheme.

The article reports on the victory of anti-Communist African Forbes Burnham in the presidential race in Guiana. It states that Burnham has defeated Marxist ruler Cheddi Jagan and freed the sufferings of the country's East Indian and African populations. It notes that Burnham has also formed a coalition Cabinet of many colors that include Africans, Indians, and Whites to work together and patch up the country's mixed economy.

The article describes an afternoon in 10 Downing Street in 1938. A meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Edward Frederick Lindlay Wood referred as Lord Halifax who are sipping tea. The extermination of Jews has begun. There's Canada, too, just disappearing round the curve. Halifax says Guiana would be a good idea, but those newspapermen ruined it by getting hold of an encyclopedia and finding out that it's full of snakes. Czechoslovakia was bad enough, but it's relatively easy to deal with Herr Hitler when he wants something.

The French stand by tradition, both the Fourth and the Fifth Republics have used the 19th century colonial method of assimilation, the pretended absorption of overseas areas into the life of the metropolitan territory rather than adopt the more subtle tactics of contemporary neo-imperialism. Charles De Gaulle was able to preserve another bit of grandeur by continuing his government's rule over three American territories, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guiana, the so-called overseas departments. Guiana is a coastal stretch of jungle on the northern border of Brazil; it has 31,000 inhabitants, a few hundred acres of sugar cane fields, no industrial development and only two passable highways. Guadeloupe and Martinique are more highly cultivated and densely populated Caribbean islands northwest of Guiana.

The article looks at the efforts launched to deal with communism in British Guiana. Great Britain suspended the constitution that gave Guina its first election, due to unrest and subversive intrigues brought about by the Communists. The role of Janet Jagan, a graduate of the U.S. Young Communist League who was trained in international Communism, in dealing with communism in Guiana is also considered.

The article describes the reasons for the victory of People's Progressive Party (PPP) in general elections of Guiana. The party has won eighteen seats out of twenty four. This party is led by the shrewd, suave Hindu dentist Cheddi Jagan, who worked his way through Howard and North- western universities in the late thirties by selling ice-cream on summer nights. He is pro-Communists and his wife Janet, a likable and brilliant America woman is the brains behind the party. The PPP had won due to proposals for land reform and Subersive Literature Control bill for literacy.

Presents an account of countries who can settle, are willing to settle or those who are in the process of settling refugees from various European countries on their lands. Uniqueness associated with the method of receiving of refugee in Sosua, Dominican Republic; Account of efforts made by the government of Sosua in settlement of refugees; Comment on the cooperation on the part of the government of Philippines to those endangered by bodily harm from Gestapo, the secret police force of the German Nazi state; Possibilities of settlements on moderate level in British Guiana according to a study by Anglo-American Commission.

The article features British Guiana artist Denis Williams. He is the son of a textile manufacturer, attended high school in the capital city of Georgetown and worked as a postal clerk. He won an art scholarship in England, but decided to return to Guiana where he painted modern cities and vegetable forms of the tropics. He is considered by art critic Wyndham Lewis as an artist of genius.

Focuses on the economic and political chaos faced by British Guiana, as of July 1964. Development of racialism in the country; Background of pro-Communist Premier Cheddi Jagan; Total expenditures posted by British Guiana in 1962.

Presents information on the author's visit to British Guiana. Significance of Guianese situation in world affairs; Information on the geographical location and population of British Guiana; Information that Guianese population consists partly Afro-American and partly Indian; Increase in the problems of poverty and unemployment faced by the people; Description of political structure of the region; Industrial and technological development of the region; Factors responsible for the growth of the sugar industry; Information on the arousal of political consciousness among the people living in the area.

This article reports on the political crisis prevailing in British Guiana. A political vacuum has been created in British Guiana by Great Britain's recent actions. The constitution has been suspended, the House of Assembly has been prorogued, while the colony has been occupied by troops, and the Governor's emergency powers has been invoked. It is believed that only one development could conceivably bring an early restoration of the constitution to British Guiana--a split within the parties which would separate Communists from non-Communists.

This article presents information on the book "Rebel Destiny. Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana," written by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits. The Bush Negroes of Guiana are a unique people. They are a conglomerate of uprooted African tribes from Dahomey and neighboring regions of West Africa who, brought to the New World as slaves, escaped not only from their Dutch masters but from the fate of their brothers in the rest of North and South America. These Negroes did not lose their cultural identity, they did not take their lowly place in a civilization that neither wanted them nor managed without them. Alone of the Negroes of our continent they managed to shake off the white man's yoke and to keep themselves permanently distinct as a completely self-supporting and self-respecting folk.

The article focuses on the White Paper published by the British government which asserts that the People's Progressive Party government in Guiana was actively formenting strikes. The move is expected to undermine police loyalty, allow free entry to Communists and intimidate assembly at Georgetown. Most Americans believe that the incident in Guiana represents the threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere. It claims that strong-arm measures were not calculated to encourage democracy.

The article focuses on the potential victory of Chief Minister Cheddi B. Jagan and his People's Progressive Party (P.P.P.) in the general election of British Guiana. It says that the party is favored in the fight of four leftish parties primarily because the British ousted him in 1953 and his patent lack of administrative ability. It states that Jagan acted like a moderate as he campaigns, along with his wife Janet, a former Chicago Young Communist Leaguer.

The article discusses the issue on whether Great Britain will take back the democratic rights it has conferred on its South American colony of British Guiana in the meeting by the House of Commons in late October 1953. It cites the move by colonial secretary Oliver Lyttelton to send warships and troops to Guiana to stop a possible coup of the communist. According to Lyttelton, the People's Progressive Party (PPP) is trying to create a one-party communist state in Guiana.

The article highlights the investigations of the three-man commission on the anti-Jagan riots in February 1962 in the British colony perched on South America's northeast coast in Guiana. It states that the report of the three-man commission will affect the decision of Great Britain on granting independence and on the role of British Guiana's far-leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan. Jagan claims that the tenets of Communism represents the Communist belief.

The article reports on the government of the reelected leader Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana . Accordingly, Jagan began agitating to end British control in his government and demanded immediate independence, while promising democracy and social reform to his people. It adds that Jagan planned to travel to the U.S. to seek aid as his share of the Alliance for Progress with President John Kennedy and the Western world.

The article discusses the irritations that weeds and grass brings in the irrigation and drainage ditches in Guiana. In 1959, the ditches had to clear expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow. Moreover, British zoologist William H. L. Allsopp took a fresh look at the weed problem and unveils his novel solution which is the manatee, a clumsy, seal-like aquatic mammal that flounders in the rivers and sloughs of tropical America.

The article focuses on the Berbice Revolution against Europeans due to atrocities for enslaved Africans in 1763. It mentions that enslaved Africans obtain their freedom on February 23, 1763 in Berbice in Guiana after more than a century of slavery under the Europeans. It states that slavery in Guyana was abolished on August 1, 1834 and was finally freed after apprenticeship on August 1, 1838.

The article provides information on the one-cent black on magenta stamp of 1956 which is considered a rare specimen and was issued by British Guiana.

The article reports on the launch of latest communication satellite GSAT-15 by the European Ariane rocket from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.

The article focuses on the Guianas which comprise the countries of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It states that the extraordinary amount of pristine rainforest and low population densities make these three places of great interest from the viewpoint of conservation and development. The history of conservation in the Guianas is accounted.

The article reports on the satellites launched of the Soyuz ST-B operated by Arianespace lifted from the Guiana Space Centre as part of Galileo global navigation satellite system program validation phase.

The article provides information on the One Cent Magenta stamp, a British Guiana stamp which was the most valuable of all stamps in 1980.

Focuses on the history of postage stamps featuring the Territory of Inini in French Guiana.

Profiles writer Wilson Harris of New Amsterdam, British Guiana. Titles of his works; Advocacy of a vision that rejects rigid dualities; Insistence of the unity of things material and non-material.

British drug market ICI Pharmaceuticals last week announced a $10 million expansion of its recently inaugurated bulk pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in Guayama. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the $60 [...]