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Guyana Marks Jonestown Site on 31st Anniversary of Massacre - NBC Bay Area
The 31st anniversary of the murder-suicide tragedy in Jonestown , Guyana passed without much fanfare here in the states on November 18, as local media focused on last year's 30-year mark. But in a jungle clearing near the site named by the cult the ...
Guyana puts plaque at Jonestown massacre site - Inside Bay Area
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay. A simple, white ...
Guyana receives US$5 million from IDB - Go Jamaica
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$5 million loan aimed at strengthening Guyana's financial sector. In a release, the IDB said the funds will assist the country to boost access to financial services and achieve greater ...
Guyana may cut more forests despite Norway deal - Reuters AlertNet
Guyana's Kaieteur Falls are seen from a natural overlook above the Potaro River in southwest Guyana. The South American nation has some of the most intact tropical forest in the world. REUTERS/STR New LONDON (AlertNet) - An agreement by Norway to pay ...
Cave Hill School of Business seeking to build capacity in Guyana - Stabroek News
The strengthening of the human resource base of both the private and public sectors of the Caribbean in order to ensure that institutions are more responsive to regional developmental needs is one of the key priorities of the University of the West ...
Record number of golfers for Guyana Open - Stabroek News
A record number of golfers including 26 overseas players will compete in the 2009 Power Stout Guyana Open golf tournament billed for Saturday and Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Course. Banks DIH Limited’s Carlton Joao presents the sponsorship cheque ...
Guyana and Norway Sign $250 Million Forest-Climate Pact - Environment News Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana , November 19, 2009 (ENS) - The governments of the northern European country of Norway and the South American country of Guyana will cooperate to provide the world with a working example of how partnerships between developed and ...
Guyana may benefit from US$1 billion Islamic bank pledge for ... - Vheadline
Caribbean Net News (Ray Chickrie and Shabnam Ali): On Sunday, November 15, 2009, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) announced that it will provide an additional US$1 billion for agricultural development in poor countries, which will benefit member ...
Guyana's Jonestown suicide site gets plaque - USA Today
Jonestown survivor Stanley Clayton, left, talks with Clare Bouquet, right, who lost her son and his wife in the 1978 tragedy, during the 30th Anniversary Jonestown memorial service at the Evergreen cemetery in Oakland, Calif. Thirty years after the ...
1st monument at Guyana's Jonestown suicide site - KTUU
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay. A simple, white ...

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