Guyana

Arts and Architecture, Culture, Guyana

Graceful Georgetown Guyana

Guyana is slowly but surely opening up for tourism. Small in South American terms, it is big in Caribbean terms-Britain would fit into it...

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Food and Cuisine, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Christmas recipes

As chill winds blow up here in the north, hastening the birth of Christ, everyone around me is happily browsing or buying gifts, looking forward to a white Christmas. I, on the other hand, am yearning for the land of my birth, and a true Caribbean Christmas.

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Community, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Guyana’s Wai Wai: Friends in the Forest

As we finally broke through the thick cloud, I peered down from the small, shuddering Islander plane at the endless green forest. For two...

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Literature, Guyana

Buxton Spice

TREE In the crook of the house was the big fat Buxton Spice Mango Tree. So close-up to the house it could see everything: through the...

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Mahaica dawn | Offtrack

Southeast of Georgetown, the lower Mahaica River runs through rice paddies and vegetable fields, but the intact native vegetation along its banks is a refuge for numerous birds and other wildlife. Janette Bulkan and John Palmer head out on an early-morning boat trip, encountering dozens of Guyana’s colourful bird species

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Lethem, Guyana | Neighbourhood

Streetscape Sprawling across a small triangle between the Takutu River, the airstrip, and the Rupununi Road, Lethem has no obvious centre...

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Immerse, People, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago

25 Caribbean achievers under 25

25 for 25 Since the first issue of Caribbean Beat was published in 1992, we’ve profiled hundreds of our region’s best and brightest —...

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Pakaraima bound

You don’t have to be a topographer to figure out that Guyana is unapologetically part of Amazonia. But, just in case you want to be...

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