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Guyana Graphic headline report of January 4, 1969

Revisiting the Rupununi uprising of 1969

By Nigel Westmaas In the contemporary discourse regarding the Guyana-Venezuela boundary controversy, there is a marked absence of public attention to key events that have significantly affected this contested region of Guyana’s territory.

The gift of love

Tradition gathers around Christmas. Pageants and homecomings and longed-for preparations repeat themselves year after year into beloved lifetime rituals.

This Week-in-Review December 10th to December 16th

Border Controversy Work underway on Argyle Declaration: The persons who will form the joint commission to be established under the Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace between Guyana and Venezuela are in the process of being selected, as Takuba Lodge hailed Thursday’s meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines as “mutually beneficial.”

Tony Thorne at Kamarang Falls

Serendipity led Tony Thorne to helping shape Guyana’s tourism product

After 33 years in the local tourism industry that he helped to build, Tony Thorne, an Australian-born Guyanese tour operator and managing director of Wilderness Explorers, would like to see more lodges opened across the hinterland to boost the growing demand for Guyana’s unique sustainable tourism products as visitor arrivals increase with more airlifts becoming available. 

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