From: Jack.Crawford@f620.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Jack Crawford)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: Guyana                1/2
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 21:56:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/620 - W-FL Teacher Resour, Stanley NY

BP>me some information on Guyana. It is in South America.It can be anything you
BP>know.Thank-you.

Compliments of the U.S. Central intelligence Agency:

  * GUYANA

GUYANA

GEOGRAPHY Total area: 214,970 km2; land area: 196,850 km2

Comparative area: slightly smaller than Idaho

Land boundaries: 2,462 km total; Brazil 1,119 km, Suriname 600 km,
Venezuela 743 km

Coastline: 459 km

Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: outer edge of continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

Disputes: all of the area west of the Essequibo river claimed by
Venezuela; Suriname claims area between New (Upper Courantyne) and
Courantyne/Kutari Rivers (all headwaters of the Courantyne)

Climate: tropical; hot, humid, moderated by northeast trade winds; two
rainy seasons (May to mid-August, mid-November to mid-January)

Terrain: mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south

Natural resources: bauxite, gold, diamonds, hardwood timber, shrimp, fish

Land use: arable land 3%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 6%;
forest and woodland 83%; other 8%; includes irrigated 1%

Environment: flash floods a constant threat during rainy seasons; water
pollution

PEOPLE Population: 749,508 (July 1991), growth rate - 0.4% (1991)

Birth rate: 23 births/1,000 population (1991)

Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

Net migration rate: - 20 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

Infant mortality rate: 51 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

Life expectancy at birth: 61 years male, 68 years female (1991)

Total fertility rate: 2.6 children born/woman (1991)

Nationality: noun--Guyanese (sing., pl.); adjective--Guyanese

Ethnic divisions: East Indian 51%, black and mixed 43%, Amerindian 4%,
European and Chinese 2%

Religion: Christian 57%, Hindu 33%, Muslim 9%, other 1%

Language: English, Amerindian dialects

Literacy: 95% (male 98%, female 96%) age 15 and over having ever attended
school (1990 est.)

Labor force: 268,000; industry and commerce 44.5%, agriculture 33.8%,
services 21.7%; public-sector employment amounts to 60-80% of the total
labor force (1985)

Organized labor: 34% of labor force

GOVERNMENT Long-form name: Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Type: republic

Capital: Georgetown

Administrative divisions: 10 regions; Barima-Waini, Cuyuni-Mazaruni,
Demerara-Mahaica, East Berbice-Corentyne, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara,
Mahaica-Berbice, Pomeroon-Supenaam, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper
Demerara-Berbice, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo

Independence: 26 May 1966 (from UK; formerly British Guiana)

Constitution: 6 October 1980

Legal system: based on English common law with certain admixtures of
Roman-Dutch law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

National holiday: Republic Day, 23 February (1970)

Executive branch: executive president, first vice president, prime
minister, first deputy prime minister, Cabinet

Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly

Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Judicature

Leaders:

Chief of State--Executive President Hugh Desmond HOYTE (since 6 August
1985); First Vice President Hamilton GREEN (since 6 August 1985);

Head of Government--Prime Minister Hamilton GREEN (since NA August 1985)

Political parties and leaders: People's National Congress (PNC), Hugh
Desmond HOYTE; People's Progressive Party (PPP), Cheddi JAGAN; Working
People's Alliance (WPA), Eusi KWAYANA, Rupert ROOPNARINE, Moses BHAGWAN;
Democratic Labor Movement (DLM), Paul TENNASSEE; People's Democratic
Movement (PDM), Llewellyn JOHN; National Democratic Front (NDF), Joseph
BACCHUS; United Force (UF), Marcellus Feilden SINGH; United Republican
Party (URP), Leslie RAMSAMMY; National Republican Party (NRP), Robert
GANGADEEN

Suffrage: universal at age 18

Elections:

Executive President--last held on 9 December 1985 (next to be held
mid-1991); Hugh Desmond HOYTE was elected president (the leader of the
party with the most votes in the National Assembly elections);

National Assembly--last held on 9 December 1985 (next to be held
mid-1991); results--PNC 78%, PPP 16%, UF 4%, WPA 2%; seats--(65 total, 53
elected) PNC 42, PPP 8, UF 2, WPA 1

Communists: 100 (est.) hardcore within PPP; top echelons of PPP and PYO
(Progressive Youth Organization, militant wing of the PPP) include many
Communists; small but unknown number of orthodox Marxist-Leninists within
PNC, some of whom formerly belonged to the PPP

Other political or pressure groups: Trades Union Congress (TUC); Guyanese
Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) includes various labor groups as
well as several of the smaller parties; Guyana Council of Indian
Organizations (GCIO); Civil Liberties Action Committee (CLAC); the latter
two organizations are small and active but not well organized; Guyanese
Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) includes various labor groups, as
well as several of the smaller political parties
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