Guyana

Is bribery sometimes OK? How people answered across the Americas

2012-02-10 10:33:13

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Don't 'go postal' over 'drinking the Kool-Aid' [Most commented]

2011-11-17 16:35:13

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It's a jungle all right in Guyana

2011-05-29 00:00:00

Wary of jaguars, Wally Prince creeps around a cave formed by overhanging boulders. A few small bats drop from the rocks, flutter about and find new resting places. Our guide, a native of Guyana, is a man on a mission. "Watch out for pit vipers," he says,...

Animal broker charged in deaths of 15 monkeys

2011-09-08 16:35:12

Guyana info

2011-05-29 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY TO GUYANA From LAX, Virgin America, American, United and Delta offer connecting service (change of plane) to Georgetown, Guyana. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $854, excluding taxes and fees. WHERE TO STAY Atta Rainforest Lodge,...

Janet Jagan dies at 88; Chicago nursing student became president of Guyana

2009-03-29 00:00:00

Janet Jagan, a Chicago nursing student who became Guyana's first white and first female president decades after immigrating to the region, died Saturday. She was 88. Jagan died at the country's state-run Georgetown Public Hospital of an abdominal...

David Shayt dies at 56; associate curator collected artifacts for the Smithsonian

2008-11-15 00:00:00

David Shayt summed up his effect on the world in fewer than 100 words. "As a museum specialist at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History," he wrote in the Washington Post for a special millennium issue, "I have added to the national...

Archive: Hell's Echo: The Jonestown Mass Suicide

2003-11-19 00:00:00

Editor's note: Nov. 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy in which 913 people died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at a cult compound in Guyana. This story was first published on the 25th anniversary of the massacre. OAKLAND -- On...

Archive: Mourners Recall Jonestown Tragedy

1998-11-19 00:00:00

As mourners assembled Wednesday for the 20th annual services commemorating the Jonestown tragedy, a Los Angeles business executive pledged funds for a long-sought memorial wall to be inscribed with the names and ages of more than 900 victims of the mass...

Archive: Jonestown's Lessons Still Go Unheeded

1997-03-28 00:00:00

It was deja vu: Too many bodies, life snuffed out, arranged neatly in restful repose, showing no obvious signs of violence. In one case, the dead were shielded from the sun by the red-tiled roof of a million-dollar mansion in a wealthy Southern California...

Archive: Little Remains of Peoples Temple Outpost Where 913 Died

1988-11-18 00:00:00

In 10-year-old photographs, the ground around the Jonestown pavilion is covered with bodies of men, women and children. More than 900 people had received a fatal potion of poison in Jim Jones' grisly ritual of suicide and murder. Today, the infamous spot...

Former Randle Man Feeds Children in Guyana

2013-05-11 11:54:02

Jerry La Gra, a Randle native who graduated from Centralia College in 1961, transferred that year to the University of Washington, but wasn't sure what to do with his life. He decided to quit school, filled out forms to join the Peace Corps and went...

Waves hit the road along the sea near Cayenne on January 15, 2013. The coast of Guyana switched to "red alert" today as several houses of Rmire-Montjoly (10 km from Cayenne) have been "damaged" due to high tides, the prefecture of Guyana said in a statement.

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Jennifer Boylan of Burlington writes, "I am a graduate student of counseling at Saint Joseph College and I traveled to Guyana to do volunteer work at orphanages and hospitals with nursing students and another counseling student.

2012-06-05 13:43:00

Miss Guyana 2011 Kara Lord poses in her Catalina Brasil swimsuit during a judges briefing for the 2011 Miss Universe pageant at the Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2011-09-06 00:00:00