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1595 Sir
Walter Raleigh explored the South American coast from the Orinoco
River to the mouth of the Amazon, an area that he called "Guiana."
(WSJ, 1/6/04, p.D10)
1616 Mar 20, Walter Raleigh was
released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1616 The Dutch became the first
to establish colonies in Guyana with Essequibo. Berbice followed in
1627, and then Demerara in 1752.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana)
1769 Oct 1, Isabel Godin, the
wife of French surveyor Jean Godin, departed Riobamba, Ecuador, with
an escort of 31 Indians in an effort to reach her husband in French
Guiana.
(ON, 5/05, p.2)
1770 Jul 18, Isabel Godin,
having traveled from Ecuador the length of the Amazon, reunited with
her husband Jean Godin in French Guiana.
(ON, 5/05, p.4)
1834 Slavery was abolished in
Guyana and people from India were brought in to work on sugar
plantations.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)
1856 A one-cent British Guiana
stamp was purchased in 1980 for $935,000 by chemicals heir John E.
DuPont.
(WSJ, 4/7/00, p.W9)
1899 Oct, An int'l. tribunal in
Paris ruled on a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana
(Guyana). Britain received most of the claim for the Essequibo
region, close to 111,000 square miles. Venezuela was represented by
2 US judges and the chairman of the panel was Russian jurist
Frederic de Martens. Venezuela rejected this decision in the 1960s.
(SFC, 10/26/99, p.A12)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.44)
1901 Nov 17, Dr. Aubre De
Lambert Maynard (d.1999 at 97) was born in Georgetown. In 1958 he
performed a successful operation on Martin Luther King who was
attacked and had a knife embedded in his sternum. Maynard authored
"Surgeons to the Poor: The Harlem Hospital Story" in 1978.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.C3)
1934 Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966),
English writer, authored “Ninety-Two Days.” It was based on his 1932
travels in Brazil and British Guiana.
{Britain, Writer, Brazil}
(WSJ, 11/24/07, p.W8)
1947 Feb 23, Shakira Caine,
actress (Man Who be King), Miss Guyana (1967), was born in Guyana.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1949 A memorandum by Severo
Mallet-Prevost was published posthumously. He had acted as junior
counsel in 1899 land dispute with British Guiana and asserted that
Venezuela was pressured to accept the deal or give up territory to
the mouth of the Orinoco.
(SFC, 10/26/99, p.A12)
1950 In British Guyana Dr.
Cheddi B. Jagan, a dentist, founded the People’s Progressive Party,
the first modern political organization in the colony.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)
1953 Apr, Dr. Cheddi B. Jagan
was elected chief minister.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)
1953 Oct 9, British troops in
Guyana deposed Dr. Jagan and charged that he and his party "were
under the complete control of a communist clique." Dr. Jagan
responded with a civil disobedience campaign and was quickly jailed
for 6 months. In 2011 declassified documents revealed that the UK
under PM Winston Churchill overthrew the elected government of
British Guiana, later Guyana, because he feared its left-wing
leader, Cheddi Jagan, and his American wife, Janet Jagan, were
leading the British colony into the arms of the Soviet Union.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)(AP, 8/25/11)
1957 The People’s Progressive
Party won elections and Dr. Jagan and his wife won cabinet posts.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)
1961 The People’s Progressive
Party again won elections and Dr. Jagan was sworn in as prime
minister. He vowed to achieve independence and install a socialist
regime. The US CIA undertook a destabilization campaign with
organized labor unrest, sabotage and disinformation that led to race
riots between East Indians and blacks that left nearly 100 dead.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A4)
1964 The People’s Progressive
Party led the vote in elections but two opposition parties formed a
coalition government.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)
1964 Riots erupted after mostly
black laborers were brought in to replace striking Indian plantation
workers. 176 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)
1966 Guyana became independent
under a Geneva Agreement.
(SFC, 4/1/97, p.A17)(SFC, 10/26/99, p.A12)
1969 A group opposed to the
government of Pres. Forbes Burnham staged an uprising in the
Essequibo region. It was asserted that Venezuela had trained and
armed the militants.
(SFC, 10/26/99, p.A12)
1970 Feb 23, Guyana became a
republic.
(HFA, '96, p.22)
1978 Jul 3, The Amazon Pact was
established. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,
Suriname, and Venezuela signed the Amazon Pact, a Brazilian
initiative designed to coordinate the joint development of the
Amazon Basin.
(http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Amazon+Pact)
1978 Nov 18, In Jonestown,
Guyana, California Rep. Leo J. Ryan and four other people,
investigating the Jim Jones cult, were killed by members of the
Peoples Temple. Greg Robinson, a SF Examiner photographer, Don
Harris, NBC correspondent, Bob Brown, NBC cameraman, and Patricia
Parks, a temple defector, were shot dead. Congressional aide Jackie
Speier survived 5 bullets. The killings were followed by a night of
mass murder and suicide. 918 people died at Jonestown, including 260
children. In 1982 John Jacobs and Tim Reiterman authored "Raven: The
Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People." In 2010 Laura
Johnston Kohl authored “Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look.” In
2011 survivors unveiled a memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland,
Ca., with the names of all the dead.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones)(SFEM,
11/17/96, p.22)(AP, 11/18/97)(SFEC, 11/8/98, p.A18)(SFC, 5/25/00,
p.C2)(SSFC, 11/16/03, p.D1)(http://tinyurl.com/4ync97m)(SFC,
5/30/11, p.C1)
1980 May 22, Larry Layton,
former member of the People’s Temple, was acquitted of 2 charges of
attempted murder by a jury in Georgetown, Guyana.
(SFC, 5/20/05, p.F2)
1980 Oct 6, Linden Forbes
Burnham (19231985) began serving as president of Guyana.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Burnham)
1982 Dec 10, The UN Law of the
Sea treaty opened for signature. It extended internationally
recognized territorial waters to 200 miles offshore. The convention
came into force on November 16, 1994, one year after the sixtieth
state, Guyana, signed it. The treaty gave countries the power to
restrict fishing within 231 miles of their coasts. The convention
created the International Seabed authority and the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wsq9p)(WSJ, 1/18/07,
p.A13)(Econ, 8/18/07, p.51)
1985 Aug 6, Linden Forbes
Burnham (b.1923), president of Guyana, died.
(SFC, 9/10/08,
p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Burnham)
1985 Desmond Hoyte took office
as president. He lowered import barriers, freed the exchange rate
and welcomed foreign investors. He led the Afro-Guyanese People’s
National Congress.
(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A18)(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A22)
1992 Fair and free elections
were introduced in Guyana. Cheddi Jagan was elected president. The
People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP-C), supported by the
Indo-Guyanese, gained power following 28 years of rule by the rival
People’s National Congress Reform (PNC-R), supported by most blacks.
(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A18)(Econ, 4/29/06, p.42)
1994 Nov 16, The UN Law of the
Sea, ratified in 1993, took effect. Arvid Pardo (d.1999 at 85),
Maltese delegate to the UN, proposed in 1967 that the bounty of the
sea should be considered "the common heritage of mankind" and asked
that some of the sea's wealth be used to bankroll a fund to help
close the gap between rich and poor nations. The International
Seabed Authority came into existence as the law took effect. The
first Secretary-General of the Authority, Satya Nandan (Fiji) was
elected in March 1996, and the Authority became fully operational as
an autonomous international organization in June 1996, when it took
over the premises and facilities in Kingston, Jamaica. The UN Law of
the Sea treaty, which extended internationally recognized
territorial waters to 200 miles offshore, came into force one year
after the sixtieth state, Guyana, signed it.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wsq9p)(SFC, 7/19/99, p.A22)
1996 Guyana’s population was
about 780,000.
(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A18)
1997 Mar 6, Dr. Cheddi Jagan
died. His widow, Janet Jagan, became prime minister under Pres.
Samuel Hinds.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A24)(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A22)
1997 Dec 15, In Guyana Janet
Jagan (77) won the elections for president.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A22)(SFC,12/18/97, p.C14)
1998 Jul 2, With the country in
turmoil Pres. Jagan met with former pres. Hoyte in St. Lucia to make
a deal that provided the opposition more say.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, Barbados, Trinidad
and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica reported plans to establish the
Caribbean Court of Justice in 1999 and planned to change their
constitutions to free themselves of the British Privy Council. The
effort was pushed to establish the death penalty.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 22, In Guyana police
and US anti-drug agents seized 3 tons of cocaine aboard a cargo ship
bound for Europe. It was a record bust for Guyana.
(SFC, 10/23/98, p.A19)
1999 Aug 8, Pres. Janet Jagan
(78) announced that she was resigning due to ill health and that
Bharat Jagdeo (35), her finance minister, would succeed her.
(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A9)
2001 Mar 19, In Guyana
elections were held for the presidency and 65-seat National
Assembly. Bharrat Jagdeo (37) and the People’s Progressive Party
won a 3rd consecutive term against Desmond Hoyte (72) of the
People’s National Congress. Some black voters raised accusation of
fraud.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(SFC,
3/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun, Brazil signed a trade
agreement with Guyana.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.36)
2002 Jul 3, In Georgetown,
Guyana, police opened fire on demonstrators who broke into the
presidential compound, killing two people and wounding six others
during a protest timed to coincide with the start of a Caribbean
summit.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Guyana the
Caribbean Community trading bloc wrapped up a summit that was marred
early on by violence and admitted Haiti as its 15th member.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Sep 26, In Guyana gunmen
opened fire at a bar popular with some ruling party members, killing
three people and injuring seven others, including the country's
chief prosecutor who was involved in a high-profile treason trial.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Dec 22, In Guyana Desmond
Hoyte (b.1929), former President (1985-1992) died.
(AP, 12/30/02)
2003 Sep 2, Ptolemy Alexander
Reid (85), former Guyanese Prime Minister, died after suffering a
stroke. Reid was named prime minister under President Forbes
Burnham, and held the post from 1980 to 1984.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Oct 10, Former Guyana vice
president and first lady Viola Burnham (72) died after a prolonged
battle with cancer. She served as vice president and deputy PM from
1985-1991.
(AP, 10/11/03)
2004 Feb 3, The US government
revoked Guyana's Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj's travel visa.
He has been accused of organizing a hit squad blamed in the deaths
of more than 40 suspected criminals last year.
(AP, 2/5/04)(Econ, 5/22/04, p.34)
2004 Mar 20, In Guyana
thousands marched through Georgetown, demanding the government order
an independent investigation into claims of a state-sponsored hit
squad blamed for more than 40 killings in the past year.
(AP, 3/20/04)
2004 Jun 24, George Bacchus
(51), a Guyana cattle farmer who prompted an inquiry into an alleged
government hit squad, was assassinated.
(AP, 6/24/04)
2004 Guyana's government gave
the indigenous Wai Wai control of 2,400 square miles of tropical
forest and savanna, nearly half the size of Connecticut.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2005 Jan 19, The US State
Department issued a warning asking Americans to defer travel to
Guyana because of flooding that has killed at least two people there
over the past week.
(AP, 1/19/05)
2005 Mar 31, Guyana police
found American missionaries Richard Hicks (42) and his wife Charlene
Hicks (58) slain at a farm they rented in southwestern Guyana near
the border with Brazil. In 2008 Guyana police issued arrest warrants
for two Brazilians accused of the killings. Peter Marare and Aleiman
Cassiano Eligenio, who were ranch hands on the couple's farm, faced
one count of murder each.
(AP, 4/1/05)(AP, 8/6/08)
2005 Jun 21, President Bharrat
Jagdeo said Guyana will hire 600 new police officers and loosen
rules on wiretapping and asset seizures as part of a strategy to
fight increasing drug trafficking.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Sep 6, Nine countries:
Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St.
Vincent and the Dominican Republic, signed oil deals with Venezuela
in Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed. Chavez urged
Caribbean governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an
alternative to capitalism.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 20, A Guyana jury
convicted Patricia Alves (43) of manslaughter for killing a friend
during an exorcism ritual. Alves was found guilty of killing Kamille
Seenauth (34) on Feb. 15, 2002. She allegedly beat Seenauth in an
attempt to drive evil spirits out of her. On Sep 28 Alves was
sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(AP, 9/21/05)(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Oct 28, Guyanese lawmakers
voted to raise the age of female sexual consent from 13 years old to
16, despite months of lobbying from groups who said the age should
have been 18.
(AP, 10/29/05)
2005 Dec 10, In, Georgetown,
Guyana, the body of Hubert Daniel Thompson (55), an American
consultant for the US government's overseas aid agency, was found in
his hotel room. Police said they suspect homicide.
(AP, 12/12/05)
2005 In Guyana the failure of a
dam during the worst rains in a century flooded dozens of villages
and parts of the capital killing 35 people.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 21, Guyana's
government deployed soldiers to protect flood control gates and
reservoirs after saboteurs set fire to drainage systems in coastal
areas threatened by recent flooding. Since December, flooding has
covered thousands of acres in waist-deep water and displaced more
than 5,000 people.
(AP, 1/21/06)
2006 Feb 26, In Guyana gunmen
on a rampage left 8 people dead and a dozen bystanders wounded on
the outskirts of Georgetown. About 15 gunmen armed with rifles tried
to rob a gas station when security guards responded. They escaped
with about $40.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Apr 22, Gunmen burst into
the home of Satyadeo Sawh (50), Guyana's agriculture minister, and
fatally shot him along with two relatives and a security guard.
(AP, 4/22/06)(Econ, 4/29/06, p.42)
2006 Jun 20, A US Embassy
spokesman said the United States has asked Suriname to extradite a
Guyanese man wanted on drug charges in New York. Shaheed Khan was
arrested June 15 by authorities in Suriname.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Aug 8, Gunmen with
automatic weapons stormed Kaieteur News, Guyana's largest newspaper,
killing at least six people and wounding three in an attack that may
have been connected to a simultaneous protest at the nation's main
prison.
(AP, 8/9/06)
2006 Aug 28, Guyana held
elections. Critics accused Guyana's government of turning a blind
eye to the cocaine flowing Guyana to the US and Europe. President
Bharrat Jagdeo's party appeared headed to victory in Guyana's
election, according to vote results.
(AP, 8/28/06)(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 31, Guyana’s elections
commission said President Bharrat Jagdeo won re-election and his
ruling People's Progressive Party increased its majority in Guyana's
parliament. The PPP received 183,887 votes, or about 55%, and
increased its seats in parliament by two to 36.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Dec 28, Guyana police said
they had shot and killed Neil Bovell (37), the country's most wanted
fugitive after he refused to surrender when they tracked him to his
father's house in Georgetown.
(AP, 12/29/06)
2006 Dec, Brazil’s government
agreed to spend $3 million on a bridge to Guyana over the Takutu
River. An attempt 5 years earlier had failed over financial
irregularities.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.36)
2006 Drug trafficking accounted
for up to 20% of Guyana’s GDP, according to the US State Dept.
(Econ, 9/2/06, p.38)
2007 Jan 25, Guyana's president
hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as a
state security adviser despite criticism in this South American
country over his record of alleged ethics violations.
(AP, 1/26/07)
2007 Mar 16, The Inter-American
Development Bank announced it would forgive $4.4 billion in debt
owed by five of the poorest countries in Latin America and the
Caribbean. The bank excused the foreign debts of Bolivia, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Haiti and Guyana in an announcement ahead of its annual
meeting.
(AP, 3/16/07)
2007 Apr 11, Guyana's Pres.
Bharrat Jagdeo said former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik has
withdrawn from contracts to advise two Caribbean governments on
security because of unresolved legal troubles in the United States.
(AP, 4/12/07)
2007 Apr 28, Guyana police
found the remains of a an elderly woman who was lynched by a crowd
of villagers. She had been accused of being an “Old Higue,” an evil
spirit who drinks the blood of human babies.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Aug 16, A conservation
group said mercury used by gold miners has seeped into rivers and
streams and sickened scores of Indian villagers in rural Guyana.
(AP, 8/16/07)
2007 Sep 7, Guyana officials
said pirate attacks along its rivers and Atlantic coast have
prompted the South American country to set up an emergency radio
network for boaters and place special markings on engines to track
stolen equipment.
(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 20, A UN decision
awarded Guyana, rather than Suriname, most of a disputed area of
coastal Atlantic Ocean, which may hold a large amount of
undiscovered oil.
(Econ, 9/29/07, p.44)
2007 Oct 4, The Wai Wai, an
indigenous group in Guyana, backed by government decree and a
US-based conservation organization, said it has banned miners and
loggers from its section of the Amazon jungle and pledged to pursue
an economic strategy based on ecotourism, research and traditional
crafts.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Nov 16, Guyana rushed
troops and police to its western border a day after Venezuelan
soldiers allegedly blew up two Guyanese gold-mining dredges on a
river near the frontier.
(AP, 11/16/07)
2007 Dec 7, The Caribbean
Community (Caricom) meeting in Guyana, agreed to open up its markets
to certain European goods, on the condition that entertainment
workers from the region are allowed free access to Europe.
(AP, 12/8/07)
2007 Guyana’s Pres. Bharrat
Jagdeo said that under the right circumstances he would cede his
country’s entire forest to stewardship by outsiders.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.80)
2008 Jan 26, In Guyana gunmen
stormed into Lusignan, a coastal village, and shot dead 11 people
with 5 children among the dead. Police and government officials
suspected a gang led by Rondell Rawlins, a former Guyanese soldier,
is behind the violence. Rawlins has accused security forces of
kidnapping his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend days ago and police
say he threatened to carry out attacks until she is found.
(AP, 1/26/08)
2008 Feb 17, Gunmen in Guyana
killed 12 people, including three police officers, in an assault on
Bartica, a small town on the Essequibo River. They invaded a police
station and made off with ammunition and weapons It was the second
major attack blamed on gangs in recent weeks.
(AP, 2/18/08)
2008 Jun 16, Guyanese
authorities banned imports of pit bulls into the South American
nation following a spate of maulings by the breed.
(AP, 6/16/08)
2008 Nov 2, In Guyana American
pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian technician Patrick
Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources
Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada,
when the plane went missing.
(AP, 11/18/08)
2009 Feb 2, Guyana banned
nighttime flights because of a strike by air traffic controllers.
The strike began the night of Jan 30 over union demands for salary
increases of 5 percent. The government says it cannot grant the pay
hikes because it needs to upgrade airport safety equipment.
(AP, 2/2/09)
2009 Mar 28, In Guyana Janet
Jagan (88), a Chicago native who became Guyana's first white and
first female president (1997), died.
(AP, 3/28/09)
2009 Sep 14, The leaders of
Brazil and Guyana met to inaugurate the $5 million Takutu River
Bridge, that is expected to boost trade between Brazil and the
Caribbean. Traffic began crossing the bridge nearly two months ago
but today’s ceremony was billed as its formal commissioning.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Nov 6, Guyanese President
Bharrat Jagdeo alleged that recent arson attacks and shootings in
his nation are the work of a mastermind living in the US. 3
attackers dressed as police officers firebombed a wooden,
colonial-era courthouse and a nearby school on Nov 4, and later shot
at two police stations, wounding one officer in the jaw and another
in the ankle.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 18, Guyana unveiled a
simple, white stone plaque with little fanfare at the jungle
clearing where more than 900 members of the cult led by the American
preacher Jim Jones died in a night of mass murder and suicide on
Nov. 18, 1978.
(AP, 11/19/09)
2010 Mar 28, In Guyana Sangeeta
Persaud (15) died after neighbors and a local pastor tried to treat
her convulsions with an exorcism at a church.
(AP, 4/3/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Guyana the
publisher of Kaieteur News vowed to fight a libel lawsuit filed by
President Bharrat Jagdeo for a column that accused the president of
racism and of hiring people to disrupt an academic conference. A
June 28 column accused Jagdeo and his party, which is dominated by
people of East Indian descent, of hiring "goons" to noisily disrupt
a conference two days earlier.
(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Sep 24, In Guyana a
teenager (16) was reported missing. Police found her body Oct. 3
inside a suitcase that had been weighted down with dumbbells and
tossed in a creek in the capital of Georgetown. On Oct 8 police
charge the girl’s mother Bibi Sharmina Gopaul and her lover Jarvis
Small with murder.
(AP, 10/8/10)
2011 Jan 5, In Guyana a grenade
that exploded at a bus depot in Georgetown while still in the hands
of the man carrying it. He was the only person killed and was
described as a Guyana native who had been released from a US prison
and deported back to his home country a few years ago. 19 people
were wounded by shrapnel in the explosion, including a 4-year-old
boy and his 76-year-old grandmother.
(AP, 1/6/11)
2011 Jan 13, Guyana recognized
Palestinian statehood, joining a string of other South American
nations in a push for Palestinians and Israelis to negotiate a peace
deal.
(AP, 1/13/11)
2011 Mar 9, Guyana police Sgt.
Dexter Clemenston was accused of raping and sodomizing a 19-year-old
recruit after beating him unconscious at the national force's
headquarters.
(AP, 3/10/11)
2011 Mar 11, Guyana police said
they have arrested a man (22) who had taken over a high school in a
rural community, where he beat students with a cane and leather
belts and arbitrarily changed school hours. The man, posing as a
government official, pulled off his ruse for two weeks until
suspicious teachers finally called the Ministry of Education.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 May 19, Guyana police
detained Akbar Muhammad, a visiting US Muslim cleric and longtime
aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, on suspicion of ties
to drugs and terrorism. Muhammad was released by Guyanese
authorities the next day and demanded an official apology from the
government.
(AP, 5/20/11)(AP, 5/20/11)
2011 Jul 30, A Caribbean
Airlines jet coming from New York crashed and broke in two while
landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard, causing several injuries
but no deaths.
(AP, 7/30/11)
2011 Oct 1, Guyana’s Pres.
Bharrat Jagdeo banned an opposition television station from
broadcasting for four months for airing a slanderous comment about
Bishop Juan Edghill, a close presidential associate.
(SSFC, 10/2/11, p.A4)
2011 Nov 28, Guyana held
elections. The East Indian-dominated People's Progressive Party led
by economist Donald Ramotar (61) won the most seats but fell short
of an absolute majority. Opposition parties could control the
65-seat parliament if they are able to work together.
(AP, 12/1/11)
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