Awarewaunau Village is transforming through sustained development and the resilience of its people
AS the afternoon sun softens over the vast Rupununi savannah, the landscape surrounding Awarewaunau appears almost untouched by time. Cattle move slowly across the open grasslands; farmers tend their crops, cotton is spun by hand, and traditional hammocks are carefully woven using skills passed from one generation to the next. Yet beneath this familiar rhythm, […]
RideGY brings safe, simple travel to Guyana
The locally built app offers fixed fares, verified drivers and trackable rides. By Andrea Hendricks FOR many visitors, the first negotiation in Guyana can happen before they even reach a hotel: securing a ride at the port of entry. RideGY, a Guyanese-built ride-hailing platform, is betting that certainty, through known drivers, fixed pricing and a […]
Teenager Reinvents Herself as an Entrepreneur Selling Trendy Phone Accessories
By Andrea Hendricks WITH a desire to make trendy tech accessories accessible in Guyana, Kayla Dover started her business, Creative Cases GY, to create and sell stylish mobile add-ons for local consumers. At 19, the founder of Creative Cases GY is building a business around custom, charm-packed designs while juggling school, work, and big plans […]
Falling in love with Guyana
How a Conservationist’s motivation and love for Guyana evolved into managing the South Rupununi Conservation Society NEAL Millar is originally from Scotland, and he first came to Guyana in 2013 at 18 as a volunteer teacher, based at Sand Creek Secondary School in Region Nine. He immediately fell in love with Guyana and the Rupununi: […]
Did Your Mind Just Choose Your Reality?
THERE is a particular kind of sentence that can make the scientifically curious person sit up a little straighter: ‘Your mind does not merely observe reality; it selects which reality manifests.’ It sounds somewhat dangerous, doesn’t it? It also sounds like quantum physics has finally wandered into the territory of manifestation, synchronicity and the long-standing […]
Effective and Efficient Administrative Assistants
ADMINISTRATIVE Assistants play a critical role in ensuring the efficient functioning of every organisation. While the number of employees performing this critical function has been reduced in some organisations, the support provided by Administrative Assistants remains important, and it would be difficult to replace them entirely, as they are a valuable resource in every organisation. […]
Epic: Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
THE standalone epic fantasy novel is a rare feat of authorial restraint or else the product of limited ambitions. Fantasy novels, after all, tend to come in series, with the trilogy often regarded as the shortest respectable form. These are stories that create and destroy worlds and gods, in which there might be dragons, demons, […]
In a Moment of Grief
FROM as early as 400 BCE to 499 CE, ancient astronomers such as Aristarchus of Samos and Aryabhata began to propose that, rather than the stars revolving around the Earth, it was the Earth that was constantly rotating on its own axis, giving the illusion that all of the celestial bodies were moving around it. […]
WHEN I FOUND YOU IV
IT was a night of passion and bliss, with the world shut out, and we were just two people following our hearts. She had left early the next morning, turning back to look at me before getting into her car, a look not of worry or fear, but of soft satisfaction. And for the two […]
Your choice of a dentist
WHEN someone decides to visit the dentist, choosing the “right” one can be a problem if they have no criteria for comparison. Notwithstanding this, even when one considers that, in this country, for every practising dentist there are about 12,000 people, there could be some difficulty when the time comes to choose which dentist to […]
