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The Upper Mazaruni Workshops in Kamarang - 04/Feb/2010 12:50 - 5207 days ago
It is with excitment and joy and that we took our 4th trip up to Kamarang to conduct the last of the workshops on Writing ...
This is is the sharp end of the hot air abour climate change and Low Carbon Development Strategy - 03/Feb/2010 11:22 - 5208 days ago
On 12th December 2007 the Honorable Robert Persaud , the Guyanese Minister of Agriculture sat down with Junior Minister Pa...
Christmas In Mississauga, Near Toronto - 02/Feb/2010 20:42 - 5209 days ago
From the global warmth of the tropics we decided in our infinite wisdom to fly North to spend Christmas with Trudy's brother and...
Baganara Just Before Christmas - 07/Jan/2010 21:48 - 5235 days ago
Just before Christmas we took a trip across the river to the island of Baganara which is the most expensive resort in the ...
Kartabo's Place In Guyanese History. - 15/Dec/2009 14:38 - 5258 days ago
Kyk Over-Al is the oldest remaining ruins (c 1617) of colonial occupation in Guyana. A Dutch fort it was built on an islan...
Diaspora Projects and Relaxing on the Mazaruni and Essequibo Rivers - 07/Dec/2009 22:33 - 5266 days ago
A significant part of our work over the last couple of years is developing the links with short term Guyanese volunteers who now...
Kaiteur Overland - 14/Oct/2009 18:48 - 5320 days ago
All you computer geeks out there should check out the Kaiteur Falls on Google...the single biggest single drop falls that runs a...
The Last Week In August - 07/Sep/2009 12:56 - 5357 days ago
The week revolved around the friends we have made. Asim ( seen in the top photo) in the water with his employee and friend Frank...
Trip To The Upper Mazaruni - 15/Jun/2009 12:51 - 5441 days ago
A long time has passed since I updated this blog....No internet at home now because Inti the provider was 'stealing' the satelli...
The ODIs West Indies versus England - 24/Mar/2009 17:19 - 5524 days ago
There is a widespread, resigned belief that events in Guyana do not start on time and are not as well organised as they co...
Expanding Our Work To The Upper Mazaruni - 01/Mar/2009 11:52 - 5547 days ago
This week saw us taking a plane from Georgetown Noth West across hundreds of miles of rain forest to the edge of Region 7 near t...
The Bartica Learning Resources Centre - 15/Feb/2009 01:14 - 5561 days ago
The Learning Resources Centre in Bartica was opened in October 2007 and quickly became the best used in the whole of Guyana.From...
THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST AND FOUND - 14/Feb/2009 11:46 - 5562 days ago
It's Valentine's Day and we have been in Guyana for exactly one year.So this is an important milesone for us...from now on it's ...
Tobago in the New Year - 01/Feb/2009 21:21 - 5575 days ago
New Year's eve was a wash out!! It rained for 7 hours straight form early evening and that flooded out the clubs where we had pl...
Untitled - 28/Dec/2008 11:27 - 5610 days ago
The photographs are pretty dreary and do not reflect the kind of Christmas that we had which was very different but a lot of fun...
Untitled - 12/Dec/2008 12:48 - 5626 days ago
Some three Sundays ago this little fellow appeared at the bottom of the 'garden' (really a swamp)of our house, the tail end of ...
Untitled - 04/Dec/2008 13:42 - 5634 days ago
Around Bartica Christmas officially started on 1st November when the first CDs of smaltzy Christmas hits of the last 40 years oo...
Visit a School on the Cuyuni - 29/Oct/2008 23:57 - 5670 days ago
From now on I shall be writing the blog with primary school children in mind. Many schools study the rainforest and there are pl...
Untitled - 09/Sep/2008 17:36 - 5720 days ago
We can now conteract the wet steaminess of the afternoon heat by taking to the hammock on the bacony ( as seen above) and the vi...
Starting A New School Year - 05/Sep/2008 18:23 - 5724 days ago
These photos are a small reminder that we are living in a most extraordinary country when it comes to animals and plants. The gr...
The trip to Venezuela and Mount Roraima - 08/Aug/2008 15:18 - 5752 days ago
It is some time since I have written on the this blog. We were on leave from Friday 18th July to 1st August and most of that tim...
The end of term and looking forward to the Mount Rioraima trek - 12/Jul/2008 19:27 - 5779 days ago
saturday 12th July 4.50pm Temperature 33.9cSchools closed on Friday 4th July and we attended a flurry of graduation ceremonies t...
The Rainy Season in bartica and at the Kaiteur Falls - 02/Jun/2008 14:12 - 5819 days ago
The rainy season in an area that already has a daily fall of rain and humidity above 90% would appear to hold few surprises exc...
More thoughts on life in Guyana -South from Bartica - 06/May/2008 15:23 - 5846 days ago
Last Tuesday I visited 2 schools...one by boat and one by road. I went to see how they were spending their $1,00,000 Guyanese gr...
Daily Life In Bartica - 07/Apr/2008 14:01 - 5875 days ago
April 7thA bit about the daily life in Bartica..It’s up about 5.45am woken by a combination of cocks crowing, sound systems fr...
Eastertime In Region 7 - 28/Mar/2008 14:47 - 5885 days ago
The Easter weekend has come and gone and we had agoodtime in Bartica. It's the time of the regatta which turned out to be a beac...
This is what we are here for.... - 12/Mar/2008 19:59 - 5901 days ago
The last week and a half have been spent visiting schools in Bartica and in the riverain area surrounding Bartica. The schools v...
'Red Earth' town and the start of work - 03/Mar/2008 18:22 - 5910 days ago
We have now been in Bartica since Wednesday 27th February and today we started work fully by visiting the largest primary schoo...
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