Country Info
- Georgetown
- Capital
- Guyana Dollar (GYD)
- Currency
- 697,181
- Population
- GY
- Country Code
Guyana Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Guyana
On the loose alone....
... Micro-Credit and Youth Empowerment Scheme. This is a micro-enterprise scheme set up by the CWM and Caribbean Regional Empowerment (Guyana). They have provided finance for selected young people to set up and run their own businesses. They are given small ...
Moving Day...
... very humid day so constant air flow is appreciated. All windows also have security guards over them. Security is a big thing here in Guyana. Later on this afternoon, Berle, who works here as an accountant and whatever else is needed, took us to the ...
The Youth Conference
... bus out to Mt Hebron Church at Parika on the banks of the mighty Essequibo River. The Essequibo is the largest river of Guyana, effectively coming from down near the southern border with Brazil out to the northern coast here. While it is a large river it ...
Psychological Type Part ll
Today has been another long and full day teaching and facilitating the second part of the Type workshop we began last Wednesday. Like last week, Kaoma led us in a time of worship. Again it was inspiring and just what I needed having just received news ...
Rally at The West Bank
A warm morning saw us up early and ready to be picked up to be taken to McFarlane Church at Goed Intent (pronounced Good Intent) on the West Bank of the Demerara River. There are a lot of interesting names of areas here, like this one 'Goed Intent' or ...
GCU Orientation
Tuesday morning we woke having both had better sleeps. Maybe we are adjusting at last!!! We headed into the office mid-morning to meet up with Paulette (the General Secretary of the GCU) Keith (the Chairman of the GCU) and Janette (one of the local ...
A Catch-Up Day
... one of the big issues they face is many having to go to other countries when they have completed their degree at the University of Guyana. Apparently 60% cannot get work here. It is a huge issue for Guyana. Keama is a trained teacher and has received high ...
Leadership Development Workshop # 1 MBTI Part One
Today we have had the privilege of doing our first MBTI Workshop in Guyana. It was the beginning of a series of four Leadership Development Workshops beginning with Part One of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I am reminded again of what a wonderful tool ...
Time with the Sage
... elder-statesman here in the church.A man of 77, he came into full-time ministry after he retired as the Chief Magistrate here in Guyana. As a young man, he went to London where he trained in law and after 10 years came back to Guyana to practice, making ...
The Parable of the Mouse-Trap
Today during the meeting at Operation Restoration, one of the Pastors told this story..... A farmer was having a terrible issue with mice in the house so decided to set a mouse trap. When the mouse saw this he was terribly distressed and wondered what he ...
The Bags are Packed; We are Ready to Go......
... to go in in the morning. Throughout the day people have been popping into the office with more gifts for us. We received some genuine Guyana gold pins - a brooch for me and a tie pin for Barry - from one of the West Bank group of Churches and then some ...
More First Impressions
After another night of broken sleep (but well utilised talking to Beth in Auckland and Remaliah in Switzerland!!) we woke late to get ready for Church. Keith picked us up to take us to his second service - that being Clarkson Congregational Church at ...
Celebrating at Clarkson
... along with the words, 'Our Thank You Seems So Small to All You've Done But It Comes From Our Heart. From the Guyana Congregational Union'. What a special gift to treasure. We have been given so much. We so enjoyed worshiping again with ...
Light in the Darkness....
... In effect it meant carrying over 20kg - not a light load. He was very pleased with me. I now have brownie points to waste!!!! Despite Guyana being known at 'the land of many waters' it seems that it is not safe in any of the towns or villages to drink the ...
Extreme Security.....
We have often mentioned the extreme security measures that are necessary here in Guyana. We have 6 locks to deal with plus a security alarm to leave the property. Also most windows and doors have iron grills which has often caused deaths in the case of ...
The West Bank Demerara
This morning saw us entering new territory again as we headed west, with Keith, to meet with the group of Churches known as the West Bank Demerara. It is to the west of Georgetown over the Demerara River. Their pastor had a stroke recently and so is on ...
"Understanding Yourself; Understanding Others" ...
... Development Workshops over 2 days with the ministers, pastors and church leaders out in this eastern side of coastal Guyana. Today was a full day running the Understanding Yourself; Understanding Others workshop. We were really pleased with the turn-out. ...
Celebrating the Creator and the Created
This morning began with an amazing torrential downpour as the rainy season showed it hasn't finished with us yet. We managed to get some photos which shows the extent of it. Due to being 'summer' here now, along with these rains makes for very high ...
Matt and Jomine are Engaged!!!!
As was arranged we woke early this morning - before sunrise - to join with Matt and Jomine as they celebrated their engagement. It has been exciting over the past few weeks since they told us that they were taking this next step in their ...
Arrived Safely
... of our hostess, Rotarian Dorothy Poole with the Rotary Club of Napean-Kanata, who has offered us accommodations at her home here in Guyana. It is a lovely old colonel home filled with many memories of an era gone by. Dorothy is most ...
Donating to CCH & Introducing "Max, the Cat"
Today we visited the Guyana Red Cross Children's Convalescent Home (CCH) to make our family and friends donations for the children. Ewin Trotman, the Administrator at CCH, was very grateful for the many items which included clothing, bibs, hats, socks, ...
St. Vincent's de Paul Care Centre
... facility, opened in 2007, focused on patients with chronic illness, many whom are living or dying with AIDS. Of note, in Guyana, over 30% of individuals that have HIV/AIDS are also co-infected with TB. Sheridan Bacchus, the ...
Home After Only 37 Hours
The one and one-half hour flight from Barbados to Georgetown seemed to be the longest of the entire trip. We landed at Georgetown at 13:30, some 12 hours late and after nearly 37 hours of travel. As per usual, it took us just over an hour to ...
Workshop for Home-based Care, Ministry of Health
... ; However, they recognize they have cleared a path for those to come and are the beginnings of Community Health Nursing (CHN) in Guyana (different from Public Health Nursing). Although in Canada, there was an inaugural meeting in 1987, it was 2003 ...