New Amsterdam Berbice "Guyana"

The Town of New Amsterdam is located on the Eastern Coast of Guyana, which over looks the Atlantic Ocean. New Amsterdam developed as a settlement, for the Dutch besides Nassau located 55 miles up the Berbice River and Canje River. Around 1784 the Dutch relocated the town. The name New Amsterdam is colonial related, it originated from the Providence Amsterdam in Holland. New Amsterdam was established between 1785-1790 with the government for Berbice, at that time the town was little more than a forest settlement with little house, no roads and no drains. Since then New Amsterdam quickly started to develop, because of its fertile soils which are very great for the cultivations. Some of Guyana mains exports which are sugar and rice are grown vastly throughout the Berbice region as well as cattle raring. 

Guyana view sympathizes with “Brazil”

Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 231 people and leaving more than 1OO hospitalizes at the moment, a doctor who’s been treating the patients says toxic smoke filled the night club killing most of the dead victims.. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. The Club called “KISS” located in Santa Maria, Brazil at the time of the incident contained a total of 2000 young people, which was twice the legal limit. Witnesses said a flare or firework lit by band members started the blaze, at this moment the own of the “KISS NIGHT CLUB” and the band member have been arrested. Guyana view is sympathizing with “Brazil” Our Neighboring country. We sympathize with the 231 families and friend of all those who were involved in the club “KISS” fire.

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Cece Winans performs in Guyana

10-time Grammy award-winning Gospel singer Cece Winans performed in Guyana last night. Her show was the largest Gospel show held at the Guyana National Stadium Providence, an event that was promoted by Inspire Promotions. Born October 8^th 1964 in Detroit Michigan, Pricilla “CeCe” Marie Winans love, is an American gospel singer who has won numerous awards such as Grammys, Stellar Awards and Dove Awards. CeCe also have several platinum selling albums, one of her collaborations is 

with the late Whitney Houston “king Of Kings”.

                CeCe Winans 

Guyana Truly Beautiful

GUYANA

Guyana Truly Beautiful a land of so much beauty and original heritage 

Famous Guyanese Cricketers

Shivnarine Chanderpaul born 16 August 1974 is a Guyanese born cricketer and former captain of the West Indiest Cricket Team. Chanderpaul is the first Indo-Caribbean to play 100 Tests for the West Indiess. Chanderpaul is currently ranked as the number one test batsman in the world in the International ICC official rankings.

Shivarine Chanderpaul 

Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan born 23 June 1980, in Wakenaam Island, Guyana he is a West Indian Cricketer from Guyana. Sarwan grew up in the small village outside the capital city of Guyana, Georgetown, he played for Georgetown Cricket Club. He has been a member of the West Indies cricket team since his Test debut against Pakistan at Barbados in May 2000

Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan 

            

Shanice Bacchus-Jones Guyanese born U.S Model/Designer

Shanice Bacchus was born in New Amsterdam, East Berbice, on July 29, 1989. She is the third of three siblings. As a child in Guyana, Bacchus undertook a few assignments to appear as a model in advertisements, but her career choice was suppressed by the reality of life in the Ancient County. However, upon migrating, almost four years ago, the urge to pose before the cameras resurfaced.

Photographers quickly developed interest in Shanice Bacchus, and, over the years, she has fallen deeper and deeper in love with the art of modelling. For her, it is not just about standing in front of the camera, but rather about doing something she loves.

Most Guyanese would not know “Raye 6″, but she is a Brooklyn artist who is moving forward quickly and inexorably in the music industry. And Shanice Bacchus has been one of Raye 6’s “Bubble Girls,” aka back-up dancers, for almost three years, during which Shanice has grown tremendously. She has hosted parties as a Bubble Girl while wearing the group’s trademark items, which include a 31-inch ponytail.

From being somewhat shy to stepping out on stage in confidence, Shanice has truly come a long way. With this career choice, she has been featured in ‘Source’ and ‘No Labelz’ magazines, in which she has received a three-page model spread.

Two years before migrating, she attended a summer sewing program in New Amsterdam hosted by Minerva Peters, where she learnt the art of becoming a seamstress. But, over the years, she has been inactive in that hobby, pursuing what she thought were bigger things. She got married in 2009, changing her name to Shanice Jones; and in August 2010, she started to showcase her hidden talent of designing when she opened her boutique, Her collection has since turned numerous heads, and has been improving constantly. It has been featured in several photo shoots and fashion shows in the U.S.

Currently, Jones is enrolled in West Barron Acting School, in New York, for its winter 2011 semester. This includes studying Film, Showcase & Monologue.

She landed her first gig as an actress in a music video shoot for Haitian celebrity singer Casley Cass, acting as his fiancée. The concept of the video is that she catches him cheating with another woman.

Guyana Takutu River Bridge to Brazil

The Takutu River Bridge, this bridge was built to connect Guyana to Brazil. It was opened on July 31 2009; The Bridge is located in Lethem, Guyana and stretches across the Takutu River to link the two borders of the two countries. The bridge cost 5 million USD and was paid for by Brazil. This bridge allows smooth and easy travel into Brazil nearest town Bon Fim.

                                                                              Takutu River Bridge 

Guyana's Floating bridges

Guyana has two of the world’s longest floating bridges. Among the world’s longest bridges is the Demerara Harbor Bridge, which is 1,851 meter long, and the Berbice River Bridge 1,570 meters both of these bridges are pontoon floating bridges which stretches across two of the main three rivers of Guyana. These Bridges allow easy access to either sides of the Rivers for daily commuters.

      Demerara Harbour Bridge

                                                                                Berbice River Bridge

 

      

Congratulations President Barack Obama

Guyana view would like to congratulate the United States President on his second inauguration

As President of the United States 

Martin Luther King, Jr

 Guyana view would like to wish everyone    

A happy Martin Luther King Jr day 

(CARICOM) Caribbean Community

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM which mean Caribbean Community, main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. The countries that are members of CARICOM are:

Antigua                                                                       CARICOM COUNTRY FLAGS 

Bahamas                                                                          

Barbados 

Belize 

Dominica

Guyana

Grenada

Haiti

Jamaica

Montserrat

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines         

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

 CARICOM activities include coordinating economic development and planning, instituting projects for the less-developed countries for its members the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters is located in Georgetown Guyana

U.S. Senator John Llewllyn Sampson Guyanese Roots

Senator John Llewllyn Sampson, Leader of the Democratic Conference was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to American and Guyanese parents in 1965. Senator John Llewllyn Sampson represents district 19 in the New York State Senate, district 19 comprises of Chrown Heights, East Flatbush and some Portions of Brownsville, Canarsie and Spring Creek Towers.

Elected in 1996, Senator Sampson is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Deputy Majority Leader for State/Federal Relations. He is a former Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Health Committee. On June 15, 2009, Senator Sampson was elevated to the leadership of the Democratic Conference of the State Senate. As Conference Chairman, he is responsible for the day to day operations and the legislative agenda of the Democratic meetings.

Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder Born Guyanese

Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder was born December 25, 1952 (Christmas day )in Guyana. She is known professionally as C. C. H. Pounder. Pounder is a Guyanese-American film and television actress. She has appeared in numerous films, made-for-television films, television miniseries and plays, and has made guest appearances on notable television shows. From 2002 to 2008, she starred as Detective Claudette Wyms in the FX Networks police drama The Shield. In 2009, she starred in the big James Cameron's film, Avatar which was a big hit at the movie box office as Mo'at. She currently appears on the TV series Warehouse 13

Eddy Grant Guyana’s musical history

The first 20th century saw a number of popular Guyanese dance bands. By the 1960s, these big bands with prominent horns, woodwinds and other instruments became less popular in favor of a wave of string bands. Among these famous singers is star singing sensation Edmond Montague “Eddy Grant” who was born March 5th 1948 in Plaisance, Guyana.

 Some of Guyana musical gene includes:

Shanto

Shanto is a form of Guyanese music, related to both calypso and mento. It became a major part of early popular music through its use in Guyanese vaudeville shows. These songs are topical and light-hearted, often accompanied by a guitar.

Calypso

Calypso is especially popular in Guyana, which was imported from Trinidad. Calypso is lyrically oriented and is often played during celebrations like Mashramani.

Indo-Caribbean

Indian music arrived with immigrants from South Asia. This originally included folk music played with dhantal, tabla, sitar, harmonium and dholak, which later including tassa drums. Music was mostly Hindu songs called bhajans.

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style, reggae is most played in Guyana parties and clubs

Mashramani / Guyana's Carnival

Mashramani is the next big upcoming event in Guyana its Guyana’s Carnival. Mashramani, often abbreviated to "Mash", is an annual festival that celebrates Guyana becoming a Republic in 1970. The festival, usually held on February 23 – Guyanese Republic Day – includes a parade, music, games and cooking and is intended to commemorate the "Birth of the Republic. The word "Mashramani" is derived from an Amerindian language and in translation means "the celebration of a job well done"

Flora Cheong-Leen Guyanese Roots

Cheong-Leen was born in Hong Kong and has Australian citizenship. Her father Hilton Cheong-Leen was born in Georgetown, Guyana but is of Chinese descent and her mother Pauline Chow is from Beijing. In her youth, Cheong-Leen graduated from the Royal Ballet in U.K., she also performed at the Paris Opera in France. After returning to Hong Kong, Cheong-Leen was selected as leading actress in ten full-length 

motion pictures including life after life.

Leona Lewis Guyanese Roots

Lewis was born on April 3, 1985 in the London Borough of Islington, to Aural Josiah "Joe" Lewis, a youth worker from Guyana (Guyanese) of Black African descent and Maria Lewis, a British social worker of Welsh, Italian and Irish descent. She rose to fame as the winner of the third series of the X Factor and became the first female winner of the show. Lewis has gone on to become a Multi-platinum selling artist.

Rihanna's Guyanese Roots

Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20 1988 in Saint Michael Barbados. Rihanna mother Monica Braithwaite, is a Guyanese retired accountant and her father is Ronald Fenty a Barbadian. 

BBC in Guyana

BBC in Guyana: A short BBC video about Guyana’s rain forest and interior savannas 

The 1933 Denham Suspension Bridge

In November 1933 a bridge was constructed over the Garraway Stream, linking Mahdia to Bartica by trail. This cable suspension bridge was named “Denham Bridge” after the then Colonial Governor Sir Edward Denham. The Denham Suspension Bridge, which is also called the Garraway Stream Bridge, served as a vital access to the early Gold and Diamond fields of Guyana. The bridge was erected directly over the Potaro River.

West Indies Cricket Team

  

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the center of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch; One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.

Adrian Dutchin

Adrian Angelo Frank Dutchin, born 4 September 1981 is a Guyanese singer with musical influences from Hip-Hop, Dancehall, Reggae and RNB. Dutchin is signed to Kross Kolor. Born the first of six, Adrian Dutchin first appeared on the scene in 1998 as part of the group "Seven". He was the lead singer of the group for four years before venturing into music on his own, and was signed to Kross 

Timeka Marshall

Guyana's singing sensation Timeka Marshall, born February 14th, 1989 at the Wismar Hospital in Linden became a public figure after winning the first ever GT&T Cellink Plus Jingle competition Timeka believes that local music and the support it gets have come a long way, but that there are steps which we can take in order to raise the standard and thus the love of our own Guyanese music even more. 

Guyana Rice and Sugar

Agriculture was once the chief economic activity in Guyana, despite the coastal plain which comprised only about 5 percent of the country's land area being suitable for cultivation of crops. Today sugar and rice are the most important primary agricultural products, as they had been since the nineteenth century. Sugar was produced primarily for export whereas rice was mostly consumed domestically. 

Guyana Gold

Guyana Gold:
This video shows you the riches of this beautiful country,
Guyana is know through out the world for its great source of Pure Gold,
a country that stand out in its riches.

Pegasus Hotel Guyana

Pegasus Hotel is a 5 star luxury hotellocated in the heart of Georgetown, Guyana , South America with views over the Demerara River, the city of Georgetown and the Atlantic Ocean.

Kaieteur, Guyana

Kaieteur, Guyana. The highest single drop waterfall in the world!

Miss Guyana 2012

Arti Cameron















Arti Cameron is the regining Miss Guyana World 2012 She 

represented Guyana at Miss World 2012 in Ordos China

MV Torani

The MV Torani is the largest of three sister ferries they transport passengers across the large rivers of Guyana The ferries are faster and the distance is the distance across the rivers are shorter  

Melanie Fiona

Melanie Fiona : A international artiste born from Guyanese parents, as we will hear in her interview;  just shining some light on the beautiful country of Guyana and our rich talent