The People's Temple of Christ was regarded by members of the Guyanese government as a model agricultural community that shared its vision of settling the hinterland and its view of cooperative socialism.

Investigations into the massacre led to allegations that the Guyanese government had links to the fanatical cult.

Later investigation implicated the Guyanese government, however.

The Suriname colonial government, and after 1975 the independent Suriname government, maintained the Dutch position ; while the British Guiana Government, and later the independent Guyanese government, maintained the British position.

In 1974, after Jones and Temple members traveled to an area of Northwest Guyana with Guyanese officials, the Temple and Guyanese officials negotiated a lease of over 3, 800 acres ( 15. 4 km² ) of jungle land from the Guyanese government.

In 1974, Guyanese government officials granted the Temple permission to import certain items " duty free.

In 1993, the Guyanese government posthumously awarded Walter Rodney Guyana's highest honour, the Order of Excellence of Guyana.

The Guyanese government also established a Walter Rodney Chair in History at the University of Guyana.

The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.

The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, is a public university established in 1963 by the Guyanese government.

More recently the Guyanese Government has extended an offer to Barbadians.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney ( 1972 ) has argued that it was an unequal relationship, with Africans being forced into a " colonial " trade with the more economically developed Europeans, exchanging raw materials and human resources ( i. e. slaves ) for manufactured goods.

Their claim is based on the idea that Guyana has strong connections with the United States in terms of people ( 100, 000 people have joint Guyanese American citizenship and 350, 000 Guyanese live in the U. S., half as many as remain in Guyana ).

Wordsworth McAndrew has been prominent in Guyanese theatre since the 1960s.

Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds ( born 27 December 1943 ) is a Guyanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously since 1992.

Sipaliwini district has seen occasional fighting between Guyanese and Surinamese troops over border disputes in the south-west.

The area was populated post World War II predominantly by immigrant Jews and Italians, then in the 1960s by African Americans, but most recently has seen many West Indian immigrants such as Haitians, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, St. Lucians, Grenadians, Panamanians, Bajans, Dominican, and Guyanese groups coming to the area.

Regionally, Bajan has ties to Belizean and Guyanese Creoles.

A Portuguese Guyanese is a Guyanese whose ancestors came from Portugal, or a Portuguese who has Guyanese citizenship.

Thousands of people summon to the streets to participate in the annual Mashramani celebrations, which has been a part of Guyanese culture for over 50 years.

The Guyanese dollar ( currency sign: $ and G $; ISO: GYD ) has been the unit of account in Guyana ( formerly British Guiana ) since 29 January 1839.

Donald Ramotar ( born 22 October 1950 ) is a Guyanese politician who has been President of Guyana since December 2011.

When the seeds turn black, the pork, which has already been cut into small pieces, washed with lemon and seasoned with bandanya ( related to cilantro, the herb is also known as culantro ( Spanish / English ), chadon beni ( Trinidadian ), pak chi farang ( Thai ), ngo gai ( Vietnamese ), recao ( Spanish ), and fitweed ( Guyanese )), is placed in the pot and fried for a few minutes.

The school has an enrollment of just over 2, 800 students of diverse ethnic backgrounds, including African American, Hispanic, South Asian, East Asian, Guyanese.

Guyanese literature has been produced by a number of authors, most of whom write in the English language.

Additionally, the Indo-Caribbean population has grown rapidly in the Floridian cities of Tampa, Orlando ( a large concentration of Guyanese from New York have migrated here ), Fort Lauderdale, Port Saint Lucie, Coral Springs, Margate, North Lauderdale ( more than 1 % of residents in the city were born in Trinidad & Tobago ), Sunrise, Plantation, Pompano Beach and Pembroke Pines.

She ’ s put her neck out more than most Guyanese ,” Janet daughter-in-law ( who is Guyanese ) exclaims.

Some might be " sing-songish " ( Trinidad, Bahamas ), ( Bajan, Guyanese ), influenced by Irish English dialects ( Jamaican ), or have an accent influenced by any of these, as well as Spanish and indigenous languages in the case of the Central American English dialects such as the Belizean Creole ( Kriol ), or the Mískito Coastal Creole and Rama Cay Creole spoken in Nicaragua.

There is a significant population of Afghans, Arabs, Barbadians, Bengalis, Bulgarians, Colombians, Croats, Dutch, Ecuadorians, Filipinos, French, Germans, Greeks, Grenadians, Guyanese, Hungarians, Iranians, Jamaicans, Jews, Koreans, Mexicans, Pakistanis, Poles, Portuguese, Romanians, Russians, Salvadorans, Serbs, Somalis, Sri Lankans, Tibetans, Trinidadians, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, Vincentians, and Welsh throughout the city.

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

** Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Guyana and 4th President of Guyana ( b. 1929 )

Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter visited Guyana to lobby for the resumption of free elections, and on October 5, 1992, a new National Assembly and regional councils were elected in the first Guyanese election since 1964 to be internationally recognized as free and fair.

The Guyanese currency generated by the sale of the wheat is used for purposes agreed upon by the U. S. and Guyana Governments.

Khan who is known as the Guyanese Pablo Escobar and whose name is mentioned in almost 200 murders in Guyana was arrested in Paramaribo in June 2006 in a sting operation by the Surinamese police.

The relatively large number of immigrants to Guyana overwhelmed the Guyanese government's small but stringent immigration infrastructure in a country where most people wanted to leave.

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

Walter Rodney ( March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980 ) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.

Bharrat Jagdeo ( born 23 January 1964 ) is a Guyanese politician who was President of Guyana from 11 August 1999, to 3 December 2011.

He was the first President of Guyana to relinquish office in accordance with term limits he signed into the Guyanese Constitution.

In line with the President's global advocacy, Guyana ’ s Low Carbon Development Strategy sets out a national scale, replicable model to protect Guyana ’ s 18 million hectare forest, to address the 17 % of global greenhouse gas emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation, and re-orient the Guyanese economy onto a long-term “ low deforestation, low carbon, climate resilient trajectory ”.

Fred Wills served as club captain for the Demerara Cricket Club ( DCC ) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U. S. Guyanese cricket fans have proposed renaming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.