Guyana and G Guide - Resources and Review

Features links to Guyana
related resources arranged by subject including business, education, food, language, politics, tourism, and weather.
 
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Guyana, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
 
Details of an insect collection programme and research project in Guyana, including a bibliography Entomological Literature in Guyana.
 
Detailed handbook describing the history of Guyana and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
 
Provides current and factual information about Guyana including business news, community activities, government papers, a photo gallery, a search facility and links to other Guyanese sites. Also features international reports such as CIA Factbook and Human Rights in Guyana.
 
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
 
Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Guyana. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
 
Part of the UNICEF Progress of Nations report, giving a summary of the social indicators and relative standing of countries with populations of less than one million. The indicators used to construct the league table include access to sanitation; per cent reduction in under
5 mortality, and women at top levels of government.
 
Listing of political resources relevant to Guyana, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
 
Basic reference information about Guyana, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
 
Basic reference information about Guyana, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co
ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
 
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