Guyana - the Wikipedia entry
April 13th, 2005 by Scott Stadum.I’m calling on all Peace Corps volunteers in Guyana to take a look at the Guyana entry on Wikipedia. It’s pretty bare, it needs some help. Take a look at it and add to it if you would.
Archive for Guyana
FBI to help investigate killings of two U.S. missionaries in Guyana
April 3rd, 2005 by Scott Stadum.(via Star-Telegram.com) The FBI is sending agents to help investigate the slaying of two American missionaries in a southwest town in Guyana near the border with Brazil, police said Saturday. The seven-member FBI team will arrive Monday to help investigate the slayings of Richard Hicks, 42, and his wife Charlene, 58, said Deputy Police Chief Henry Greene. [...]
Peace Corps Wedding in Guyana
April 2nd, 2005 by Scott Stadum.On Saturday, April 2nd I attended the traditional Hindu wedding between a Peace Corps volunteer friend and a Guyanese friend, Niki and Ian. It was an exceptional day, as Niki asked that I give her away at the wedding as her father would not be attending. I was honored and thrilled to do [...]
Mick Jagger was in Georgetown Guyana tonight
April 1st, 2005 by Scott Stadum.So about 10 of us Peace Corps volunteers are sitting at Palm Courts tonights drink some beer and this guy walks in. I’m like, whoa, that’s Mick Jagger, and the first reaction I get is “Why would Mick Jagger be here in Guyana?” Yeah, I really didn’t know, and then it struck all [...]
Visiting Canadian M.P. releases report, Conservancy collapse will breach seawall - push coastland 20 miles inland
March 28th, 2005 by Scott Stadum.(via GuyanaFriends.com) Canadian M.P. Jim Karygiannis is warning that Guyana - still reeling from the flooding caused by five days of continuous, unremitting rain in mid-January - faces an even greater potential danger from massive flooding in the official rainy season of May and June. “There is a very real possibility that flooding could take place on [...]