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	Guyana
		Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 and became a republic in 1970, remaining a member of the Commonwealth.
		Guyana's population of 751,223 ([http://www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy/ Statistics Bureau], 2002) is diverse: the three largest groups are the India ns or Indo-Guyanese (43.5% in 2002) who have remained predominantly rural, the Africa ns or Afro-Guyanese (30.2%) who constitute the majority urban population, and those of mixed origin (16.7%).
		Guyana exhibits two of the WWF's Global 200 ecoregions most crucial to the conservation of global biodiversity, Guianan moist forests and Guyana Highlands moist forests and is home to several endemic species including the tropical hardwood Greenheart (''Chlorocardium rodiei'').
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Guyana (3364 words)

	Map Zones : Guyana Map
		Guyana's remaining land area is divided into a white sand belt, which is forested, and interior highlands consisting of mountains, plateaus, and savanna.
		Guyana's population was counted at 758,619 in the census of 1980 and estimated to be 764,000 in 1990.
		Guyana's birthrate, which averaged thirty-two live births per 1,000 residents in the two decades prior to 1940, jumped to an exceptionally high forty live births per 1,000 in the two decades after 1940.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/guyana (3002 words)

	Guyana (09/06)
		Guyana achieved independence in May 1966, and became a republic on February 23, 1970--the anniversary of the Cuffy slave rebellion.
		She was Guyana's first female prime minister and vice president, two roles she performed concurrently before being elected to the presidency.
		Guyana has sought to keep foreign policy in close alignment with the consensus of CARICOM members, especially in voting in the UN, OAS, and other international organizations.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1984.htm (4121 words)

	Guyana
		Guyana achieved independence from the UK in 1966, but until the early 1990s it was ruled mostly by socialist-oriented governments.
		Guyana has a large and ecologically diverse rain forest, significant untapped mineral reserves including gold and bauxite, and agricultural resources but remains among the poorest countries in the hemisphere.
		The Guyana Defense Force (GDF) is inadequately funded and unable to control its border and vast, sparsely populated interior, a significant factor in Guyana’s increasing role as a transit country for narcotics bound for the U.S. and Europe.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/64521.htm (542 words)

	Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Guyanese landscape can be roughly divided three regions; a narrow marshy plain along coast of the Atlantic Ocean a white sand belt more inland rainforests and most of Guyana's mineral deposits finally the larger interior highlands consisting mostly savannas and mountains the highest being Mount at 2 835 m.
		Guyana has a diverse ethnic population: the major groups are the (East) Indians or Indo-Guyanese (50%) who have remained rural the Africans or Afro-Guyanese (36%) who constitute the urban population and the Amerindians (7%) who live in the country's Chinese and Europeans (mostly Portuguese and British) and those of mixed origins make the remainder.
		Christianity (50%) Hinduism (35%) and Islam (10%) are the dominant religions in with the latter two concentrated in the community.
	www.freeglossary.com /Guyana (1028 words)

	Another hit- from Guyana: Land of Six Peoples
		Their role in preserving Guyana's territorial integrity during national crises such as the Ankoko occupation, the Rupununi rebellion, the New River intrusion and the on-going plunder of marine resources in the Atlantic is also well known.
		But, although their military training may be high by GDF standards, their academic education may still be at the level at which they left primary school 22 years earlier.
		The present plight of military veterans is understood best by examining the severe economic recession in Guyana during the decade of the 1980s.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news/ns112097.htm (2981 words)

	Guyana - Gurupedia
		Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 and became a
		Guyana has a diverse ethnic population: the three major groups are the (East) Indians or Indo-Guyanese (50%) who have remained predominantly rural, the Africans or Afro-Guyanese (36%) who constitute the majority urban population, and the
		Hinduism (35%), and Islam (10%) are the dominant religions in Guyana, with the latter two concentrated in the Indo-Guyanese community.
	www.gurupedia.com /g/gu/guyana.htm (719 words)

	Guyana - Introduction
		The independent Guyana inherited by the PNC was one of the least-populated and least-developed countries in South America.
		Guyana's ethnic mix at independence, still the same in 1993, consisted primarily of Indo-Guyanese--about half the population-- and Afro-Guyanese--slightly more than 40 percent of the total.
		Venezuela's claim to the western three-fifths of Guyana, a dispute that dated from the colonial era, was thought to have been settled by arbitration in 1899.
	countrystudies.us /guyana/3.htm (4064 words)

	Guyana Defence Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is the military service of Guyana.
		However, Officers are trained at two of the world-renowned British officer training schools: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (Infantry Training) and Britannia Royal Naval College (Coast Guard Training).
		The Guyana People's Militia (now the Second Infantry Battalion Group Reserve) and the Guyana National Service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Guyana (247 words)

	Guyana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guyana (pronounced [gaɪ'a.na]; occasionally Anglicized as [gaɪ'æ.nə]), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America.
		Guyana is the only South American country whose official language is English, and is one of only two remaining countries on mainland America whose traffic still drives on the left.
		Guyana's culture is very similar to that of the English-speaking Caribbean, to the extent that Guyana is included and accepted as a Caribbean nation and is a founder member of the Caricom (Caribbean Community) economic bloc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guyana (5211 words)

	Moscow Eyes Guyana
		Guyana is a mainland country whose borders adjoin mineral rich Venezuela and Brazil, allowing easy infiltration for subversives and drug traffickers.
		Guyana's relations with its English-speaking Caribbean neighbors have been strained by meddling in their internal affairs.
		Last December, Guyana's Foreign Minister Rashleigh Jackson announced that it was necessary for his country to expand and consolidate its relations with the Soviet Union.
	www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg490.cfm (2389 words)

	guyana - definition by dict.die.net
		Guyana n : a republic in northeastern South America; achieved independence from England in 1966 [syn: Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana, British Guiana]
		Guyana Introduction Guyana ------------------- Background: Guyana achieved independence from the UK in 1966 and became a republic in 1970.
		In 1989 Guyana launched an Economic Recovery Program, which marked a dramatic reversal from a state-controlled, socialist economy towards a more open, free market system.
	dict.die.net /guyana (132 words)

	Office of the President of Guyana
		Guyana’s High Commissioner to London is accredited to the Czech Republic.
		The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) this afternoon hosted it fourth Military Tattoo since its four decades of existence, much to the awe and amazement of Guyanese who crowded the playfield at Camp Ayanganna for a glimpse of the various military displays.
		In Guyana, the Military Tattoo was first held at Eve Leary in 1920 y the British Guiana Militia.
	www.op.gov.gy /stories/051109.html (901 words)

	Diamonds.net News - Venezuela Military Denies Killing Guyana Miner
		The government acknowledged that military personnel patrolling the border with Guyana fired at Guyanese miners, but there was no evidence to support one miner was killed.
		Venezuela's defense minister Raul Isaias Baduel stated on television news October 9, that military fired on aggressive miners stationed on Venezuela's side of the border with Guyana.
		Guyana's government claims one miner was killed during the shooting on October 7.
	www.diamonds.net /news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=15771 (267 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By Aroonim Bhuyan, Georgetown (Guyana), Nov 9: A Rajasthani folk dance, dandiya, a Guyanese national dance and a schoolboys' choir: it was a perfect fusion of themes Indian and Guyanese that saw Guyana's brand new cricket stadium being...
		Guyana President Bharat Jagdev has urged India to extend all possible cooperation to his country in the field of Information Technology to help it become economically independent....
		Guyana's main mountains are contained here, including Mount Ayanganna (2042 m) and on Mount Roraima (2,835 m - highest mountain in Guyana) on the Brazil-Guyana-Venezuela tripoint, part of the Pakaraima range.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/guyana (3552 words)

	Guyana Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1616 Guyana became a colony of the Netherlands.
		From 1814 on Britain was the ruling country and named the colony British Guyana in 1831.
		In 1966 Guyana became an independent state and in 1970 was proclaimed a Republic.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /waf/americas/guyana/guy-home.htm (72 words)

	Another hit- from Guyana: Land of Six Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The allocations will be welcomed with a sigh of relief from Guyanese not because they will meet our desperate military needs - they will not - but as a sign that this government is finally beginning to take seriously the need to have a small, professional army that is properly equipped.
		A big opportunity was lost because of the emasculation of the military and this is a state of affairs that successive governments starting with the PNC should answer for.
		Sympathetic governments like the UK and Canada could also be approached bearing in mind that it is not only to the east where a physical presence must be established but to the west and the north.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news/ns01106.htm (575 words)

	133. AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN GUYANA IN 1953
		In the United States concerns began to be voiced as soon as the PPP won the general election in April 1953.
		No doubt, the US Government was also worried that if Guyana became communist, it may pose a security threat for the Panama Canal, since in their estimation, Russia would be able to obtain port facilities in Guyana.
		The removal of the PPP by the British Government, by both constitutional and military means, and the setting up subsequently of a puppet nominated Interim Government were, therefore, very much welcomed by the US administration.
	www.guyana.org /features/guyanastory/chapter133.html (1058 words)

	Guyana Journal \| Identity and Violence
		Secondly, the overwhelming dominance of 'Africans' in the Police and Military in Guyana serves as another empowerment and encouragement mechanism for Afro-Guyanese violence against Indo-Guyanese.
		In this context, we can interpret the non-effectiveness of the security forces in Guyana as more than incompetence or foot-dragging; it is a pledge of affective investment in the Historical Mission bequeathed to Afro-Guyanese in the master narrative emplotted in Caribbean Historical Discourse and its political ‘moment,’ Black Nationalism.
		Guyana, with a population of around 800,000 ought to be a place where all Guyanese want to live.
	www.guyanajournal.com /identity_violence.html (3088 words)

	Guyana (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		History of the Republic of Guyana, by Safraz W. Ishmael.
		Guyana - A Country Study: Table of Contents by US Library of Congress.
		Guyana Defence Force directory by US Embassy, Georgetown.
	www.regiments.org /nations/westindies/guyana.htm (230 words)

	GINA \| GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AGENCY \| GUYANA
		The Guyana Police Force is one of the oldest institutions in Guyana.
		Recently, 19 police ranks graduated from a prosecutor’s course, which was a collaborative effort by the GPF, the University of Guyana and the Institution of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE).
		This is in an effort to increase the force’s skills in detecting and curbing kidnappings that have occurred in Guyana.
	www.gina.gov.gy /archive/features/f030705.html (490 words)

	Guyana - Relations with Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brazil has provided small amounts of military assistance to Guyana in the form of jungle warfare training and logistical matériel.
		Brazil's military assistance to Guyana has been contingent on Guyana's refusal of any military aid from Cuba.
		In 1975 United States allegations that Guyana was allowing Cuban troops en route to the Angolan civil war to refuel in Guyana made the Brazilian government nervous, and it briefly undertook military maneuvers on its border with Guyana.
	countrystudies.us /guyana/88.htm (170 words)

	Former German French Foreign Legionnaire and his pictures from French-Guyana - Military Photos
		I think his point is that if there are no humans to bite, mosquitos do not carry the malaria.
		However, I got malaria in the interior of the neighboring (formerly British) Guyana in 1988.
		I also managed to pick up a nasty little flesh eating parasite, leismaniasis, which was quite popular in the Guyanas in the late 80s.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=89598 (636 words)

	Guyana News and Information
		Updated news out of Guyana from major Guyanese newspapers such as the Chronicle, the Stabroek News, the Mirror, Kaieteur News and Guyana Diary.
		Collection of recent speeches by His Excellency Odeen Ishmael - Ambassador of the Republic of Guyana to Venezuela and former Ambassador of Guyana to the United States of America and to the Organization of American States.
		A collection of documents on the maritime dispute triggered by the June 2, 2000 incursion of Guyana's airspace and territorial waters by Surinamese military forces.
	www.guyana.org (518 words)

	Guyana Commentary
		Against this background, and without a Commission of Inquiry, the allegations against the CIA and presumably its agents in Guyana's military and political establishment cannot be dismissed."
		Also to be explained are some of the regime's acts of denial and acts of omission, as well as the failure of two ruling parties to mount an international enquiry.
		Also for notice is the Sate Department's claim in its Human Rights report that the government of Guyana might have been implicated in the assassination.
	guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /roopnarine.html (764 words)

	Guyana asks US military to help evacuate flood victims - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Thousands have been forced from their homes in the capital region of Georgetown because of flooding caused by several days of steady rains.
		GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana asked the US military for help in evacuating residents stranded in remote villages, while a six-year-old boy who drowned in his inundated yard became the third person killed in floods caused by the heaviest rains in a century, officials said yesterday.
		The body of six-year-old Andy Roopnarine was found floating in four feet (1.2 metres) of water beneath stairs in the yard of his home in Lusignan, 9 miles (14 kilometres) east of the capital of Georgetown, police said.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050121T190000-0500_73645_OBS_GUYANA_ASKS_US_MILITARY_TO_HELP_EVACUATE_FLOOD_VICTIMS.asp (258 words)

	Guyana Military expenditures - percent of GDP - Military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Guyana Military expenditures - percent of GDP - Military
		Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.9% (2003 est.)
		Definition: This entry gives current military expenditures as an estimated percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
	www.indexmundi.com /guyana/military_expenditures_percent_of_gdp.html (53 words)

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