talking about guyana

1. BRITISH GUYANA "The Land of
Many Waters" officially the Co-
operative Republic of Guyana
"ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY"

2. localization
 Modern Guyana is bordered to the east by
Suriname , to the south and southwest by
Brazil , to the west by Venezuela , and on
the north by the Atlantic Ocean .

3. the independence of British Guiana
Guyana achieved independence from the
United Kingdom on 26 May 1966 and
became a republic on 23 February 1970,
remaining a member of the
Commonwealth .

4. Environment and biodiversity
More than 80% of Guyana is still covered by forests,
ranging from dry evergreen and seasonal forests to
montane and lowland evergreen rain forests.
Guyana has one of the highest levels of biodiversity
in the world. Guyana, with 1,168 vertebrate
species, 1,600 bird species, boasts one of the
richest mammalian fauna assemblages of any
comparably sized area in the world.

5. Economy
 The main economic activities in Guyana
are agriculture (production of rice and
Demerara sugar ), bauxite mining, gold
mining, timber, shrimp fishing and
minerals, The sugar industry, which
accounts for 28% of all export earnings, is
largely run by the company Guysuco,
which employs more people than any
other industry

6. Major trading partners
 Canada, US, UK, Portugal, Jamaica,
Trinidad and Tobago, China, Cuba,
Singapore, Japan , Brazil, Suriname (2009

7. Guyana’s rivers
The four longest rivers are the Essequibo at
1,010 kilometres (628 mi) long, the
Courantyne River at 724 kilometres (450
mi), theBerbice at 595 kilometres (370
mi), and the Demerara at 346 kilometres
(215 mi).

8. Guyana’s mountains
Some of Guyana's highest mountains are
Mount Ayanganna (2,042 metres / 6,699
feet), Monte Caburaí (1,465 metres /
4,806 feet) and Mount Roraima (2,810
metres / 9,219 feet – the highest
mountain in Guyana) on the Brazil-
Guyana-Venezuela tripoint border, part of
the Pakaraima range.

9. Unemployment,
9.1% (2008), Labour force , 418,000 (2001
estimate)

10. Cost of living
The cost of living in Guyana is high. This is because most of
the items used in daily life are imported with high
transportation costs involved. Monopoly in some business
sectors also causes higher profit booking and further
raising of prices. For example, approximate prices (as of
January, 2010) of gasoline (petrol) is US$ 5 per gallon, and
electricity prices are close to US$ 0.33 per unit A domestic
gas bottle (or gas cylinder) is slightly over US$ 20. Rent for
average family accommodation may exceed US$ 100 per
month in safe urban locations,but most people have their
own homes and do not rent, and personal income tax,
which is 33.33% (one third) of total taxable income makes
the cost of living higher. An employee's salary is normally
paid in Guyanese dollars (1 US Dollar = 200 Guyanese
Dollars approx.) and income tax is deducted by the
employer.

11. guyana’s climate
The local climate is tropical and generally
hot and humid, though moderated by
northeast trade winds along the coast.
There are two rainy seasons, the first from
May to mid-August, the second from mid-
November to mid-January.

12. Guyana’s people
The present population of Guyana is racially and
ethnically heterogeneous, composed chiefly of the
descendants of immigrants who came to the
country as either enslaved or indentured labourers
respectively, from Africa and India. The population
therefore is made up of groups with ethnic
backgrounds from India, Africa, Europe, China,
with Aboriginal. These groups of diverse nationality
backgrounds have been fused together by a
common language, i.e.,English and Creole. There
has been racial tension between the majority Indo-
Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese .

13. Languages of guyana
 English is the official language of Guyana and
used in its schools. In addition, Cariban
languages (Akawaio, Wai-Wai, Arawak and
Macushi) are spoken by a small minority, while
Guyanese Creole (an English-based creole with
African and/or East Indian syntax whose
grammar is not standardised.) is widely spoken.

14. religion
Data from a 2002 census on religious affiliation
indicates that approximately 57% of the
population are Christian (of those, 17% are
Pentecostal, 8% are Roman Catholic, 7% are
Anglican, 5% are Seventh-day Adventist, and
20% belong to other Christian denominations).
Approximately 28% are Hindu, 9% are Muslim
(mostly Sunni), and members of the Bahá'í
Faith and Rastafarianismmake up most of the
remaining 2%. An estimated 4% of the
population does not profess any religion.[

15. Politics of Guyana
Politics of Guyana takes place in a framework of
a semi-presidential representative democratic
republic, whereby the President of Guyana is
the head of government, and of amulti-party
system. Executive power is exercised by the
government. Legislative power is vested in
both the government and the National
Assembly of Guyana.

16. military
The military of Guyana consists of the
Guyana Defence Force (GDF), which
includes Ground Forces, Coast Guard, and
Air Corps.

17. transport
here are a total of 116 miles (187 km) of railway,
all dedicated to ore transport. There are 4,952
miles (7,970 km) of highway, of which 367 miles
(590 km) are paved. Navigable waterways
extend to 669 miles (1,077 km), including the
Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers. There
are ports at Georgetown, Port Kaituma, and New
Amsterdam. There is 1 international airport (
Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri); 1
regional airport (Ogle Airport); and about 90
airstrips, 9 of which have paved runways.
Guyana andSuriname are the only two countries
in South America which drive on the left.

18. Water supply and sanitation
Key issues in the water and sanitation sector in Guyana are
poor service quality, a low level of cost recovery and low
levels of access. A high-profile management contract
with the British company Severn Trent was cancelled by
the government in February 2007. In 2008 the public
utility Guyana Water Inc implemented a Turnaround Plan
(TAP) to reduce non-revenue water and to financially
consolidate the utility. NRW reduction is expected to be
5% per annum for the three-year period of the plan, A
mid term review is now due to examine the success of
the TAP.

19.  Satellite Television
 Satellite television services are offered by
DirecTV Caribbean.
 Internet system
 Internet country code: .gy
 Internet hosts: 6,218 (2008)[citation needed]
 Internet users: 225,129 (2010)
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20. Delivery service
 Level I: Local Health Posts (166 in total) that provide
preventive and simple curative care for common
diseases and attempt to promote proper health
practices. Community health workers staff them.
 Level II: Health Centres (109 in total) that provide
preventive and rehabilitative care and promotion
activities. These are ideally staffed with a medical
extension worker or public health nurse, along with a
nursing assistant, a dental nurse and a midwife.
 Level III: Nineteen District Hospitals (with 473 beds)
that provide basic in-patient and outpatient care
(although more the latter than the former) and selected
diagnostic services. They are also meant to be equipped
to provide simple radiological and laboratory services,
and to be capable of gynecology, providing preventive
and curative dental care. They are designed to serve
geographical areas with populations of 10,000 or more.

21. Delivery service
 Level IV: Four Regional Hospitals (with 620 beds) that
provide emergency services, routine surgery and obstetrical
and gynecological care, dental services, diagnostic services
and specialist services in general medicine and pediatrics.
They are designed to include the necessary support for this
level of medical service in terms of laboratory and X-ray
facilities, pharmacies and dietetic expertise. These hospitals
are located in Regions 2, 3, 6 and 10.
 Level V: The National Referral Hospital (937 beds) in
Georgetown that provides a wider range of diagnostic and
specialist services, on both an in-patient and out-patient
basis; the Psychiatric Hospital in Canje; and the Geriatric
Hospital in Georgetown. There is also one children’s
rehabilitation centre.

22. EDUCATION
Guyana's educational system is considered to be among the
best in the Caribbean, but it significantly deteriorated in the
1980s because of the emigration of highly educated citizens
and the lack of appropriate funding. Although the education
system has recovered somewhat in the 1990s, it still does
not produce the quality of educated students necessary for
Guyana to modernise its workforce. The country lacks a
critical mass of expertise in many of the disciplines and
activities on which it depends. The educational system does
not sufficiently focus on the training of Guyanese in science
and technology, technical and vocational subjects,
business management, nor computer sciences. The
Guyanese education system is modeled after the former
British education system. Students are expected to write
NGSA[National Grade Six Assessment] for entrance into
High School in grade 7. They write CXC at the end of high
school. Recently they have introduced the CAPE exams
which all other Caribbean countries have introduced. The
A-level system left over from the British era has all but
disappeared and is offered only in a few schools.

24. Guyana was inhabited by Arawak and Carib tribes of
Native Americans. Although Christopher Columbus
sighted
Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498), the Dutch
were the first to establish colonies: Essequibo
(1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752). The
British
took control in the late 18th century, and
Dutch formally ceded the area in 1814. In 1831 the
three separate colonies became a single colony
known as British Guyana.