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11 unusual facts about Georgetown, Guyana


Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow (1884–1958) was born in Georgetown, Guyana.

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard (born 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a British artist and photographer.

Jason Miskiri

Jason Miskiri (born August 19, 1975, in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional basketball player.

Marlon Forrester

Marlon Forrester: born 1976, Georgetown, Guyana, South America, painter, artist, educator raised in Boston, MA.

National Communications Network, Guyana

NCN's studios are situated on Homestretch Avenue in Georgetown.

Roy Heath

Roy A(ubrey) K(elvin) Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer, most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels (also published in an omnibus volume as The Armstrong Trilogy, 1994), consisting of From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981).

Stanley Greaves

Greaves was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana.

Timothy Stoen

In September 1977, a Georgetown court ordered the Temple to show cause why a final order should not be issued compelling the return of John to his mother.

In January 1978, Stoen traveled to Georgetown to take custody of the child, but he was unsuccessful.

Trevor Phillips

Phillips was born in London, and lived in Wood Green, attending Wood Green Grammar School (became Wood Green Comprehensive in 1967) on White Hart Lane, but took his A-levels at Queen's College in Georgetown, Guyana.

Victor Quelch

Captain Victor Quelch (December 13, 1891 in Georgetown, British Guiana – September 1975 ) was a farmer, a soldier in the Canadian Army, and was also a long serving Canadian federal politician.


2010 Commonwealth Games medal table

Aliann Pompey of Guyana was promoted to the silver medal position, with the bronze medal going to Christine Amertil of the Bahamas.

Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson

Slade Hopkinson is a writer who was born into a middle-class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana in 1934.

Andrew Morrison

Fr Morrison's first major public episode, in view of the international community at large, was his coverage of the Jim Jones led mass suicide-massacre, which took place in 1978 in Guyana.

Arnettsville, West Virginia

It lies south of Georgetown on U.S. Route 19.

Arya Samaj in Guyana

After 1975, however, the board of the Guyana Arya Pratinidhi Sabha wished to loosen its ties with the People's Progressive Party (PPP) led by Cheddi Jagan to adopt a politically more independent policy.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

Georgetown, located off I-75, is the home of the Toyota Motor Plant; Ward Hall built in 1853 and referred to as the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the south; the Cardome Centre, former monastery building designed for the Sisters of the Visitation in 1898; and St Francis de Sales Mission, the oldest church in the Diocese of Covington built in 1794.

Bocoa

It was found in the Upper Essequibo region of Guyana and is most morphologically similar to B. prouacensis.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Colorado Relay

The majority of teams have 10 runners and 2 volunteers plus other support staff (Minimum 5/maximum 12 runners per team) who make their way from Georgetown to Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado with each team member running a certain number of "legs" determined by their teammates (each averages approximately 6 miles).

David Granger

David A. Granger (born 1945), Guyanese, Commander of the Guyana Defence Force, 2011 PNC presidential candidate

Ed McCaffrey

He has two brothers and two sisters: Monica of Georgetown University Women's Basketball, Billy McCaffrey, a former Duke and Vanderbilt college basketball player, Michael and Meghan.

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Emerson Samuels

He is perhaps best known for his portrait of Guyana President Forbes Burnham, completed in August 1984, which hangs in the Parliament Chamber.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Fort Ellsworth

Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and Georgetown.

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Georgetown, Arkansas

The disaster contributed to the demise the next year of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which had provided passenger and freight service since 1906 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena, Arkansas.

Georgetown, Mississippi

Georgetown is the birthplace of professional football player Dick Bass.

Georgetown, Queensland

Georgetown is one of the real locations mentioned several times in the novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute.

Healy

Healy Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Hobcaw

Hobcaw Barony, also known as Bellefield Plantation, a tract of land in Georgetown County, South Carolina, in the United States

Jack Palladino

Palladino spent seven years investigating the Peoples Temple tragedy, in which more than 900 members of a religious cult died in Guyana in 1979.

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

Jonathan Z. Smith

His research includes the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Kabalebo

Clockwise, the Kabalebo resort borders the Upper Coppename River and resort to the East, it's adjacent to the Coeroeni River and resort in the South, bordered in the North across the Courantyne River to Guyana and also to Nickerie.

Lederman

Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Mangrove oyster

Sir Walter Raleigh, as part of an expedition to Guyana, famously encountered the mangrove oyster near Pitch Lake during his stopover in Trinidad.

Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project

This change in ownership saw construction of the MCDVs modularized with sections of the vessels constructed at Irving Shipbuilding facilities in Georgetown, PEI and Shelburne, NS for later assembly in Halifax.

Mashramani

The Jaycees of Linden had, since Guyana became independent in 1966, been organizing an Independence Carnival in Mackenzie.

Newburyport Railroad

The first company was incorporated in 1846 and opened a line from Newburyport on the Eastern to Georgetown in 1849, and west to the Boston and Maine Railroad at Bradford in 1851.

Oreophrynella quelchii

This species is restricted to the transboundary summit of Mount Roraima in Venezuela (inside Canaima National Park World Heritage Site), Guyana and Brazil, and from Wei-Assipo-Tepui in Guyana.

Oyapoc

Oyapoc was a short-lived English settlement in Guyana, which was established in 1620 under Governor Roger North and abandoned in the same year.

Port Kaituma Community School

Port Kaituma Community School (PKCS) is a learning centre located in Port Kaituma within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana.

Providence Stadium

Located along the East Bank Highway the stadium is a ten minute drive from Georgetown's city centre and a 30 minute drive from Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Ricardo Brangman

In Guyana's successful chase, Brangman took a single catch from behind the stumps, catching Travis Dowlin for 4 runs off the bowling of Traddie Simpson.

Rosslyn Mountain Boys

The cover of the Rosslyn Mountain Boys album showed the band in a glade, with the 1970s skyline of Rosslyn, Virginia in Arlington County, directly opposite Georgetown, D.C. on the Potomac River, grafted in behind them.

Rudy Grant

Rudy Grant, also known as Little Brother Grant and The Mexicano (born Rudolph Grant, Plaisance, Guyana), is a reggae deejay and singer.

Sipaliwini District

Sipaliwini district has seen occasional fighting between Guyanese and Surinamese troops over border disputes in the south-west so called Tigri Area of the Coeroeni resort.

Skiotocharax meizon

Skiotocharax meizon is a species of South American darter endemic to Guyana where it is found in the basins of the Mazaruni and Berbice Rivers.

Soesdyke-Linden Highway

The Soesdyke-Linden Highway is a 45-mile long 2-lane highway that runs between Soesdyke and Linden in Guyana.

Taylor Benjamin

On November 11, 2011, Benjamin was called up to Guyana for their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Trinidad & Tobago.

The Equals

Eddy Grant – guitar (born Edmond Montague Grant, 5 March 1948, Plaisance, Guyana)

The White Diamond

It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana.

Uriah Forrest

He also served as mayor of the Town of George, now Georgetown, in 1791 when George Washington met with local landowners at his home to negotiate purchase of the land needed to build the new capital city.

Victor Ramdin

Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin (born May 28, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a professional poker player, based in The Bronx, New York, who has won a World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship and is a member of Team PokerStars.