Entries for 17 December 2020
Music Video: Slingshot DrePaul – A Very Merry Guyanese Christmas
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Music Video: Slingshot DrePaul – A Very Merry Guyanese Christmas
‘A Very Merry Guyanese Christmas’ captures the spirit of Christmas in Guyana.
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Guyana: Mining: Omai finds high-grade gold underground – in abandoned pit
— To launch drilling campaign next year December 16, 2020 – – INews Guyana
OMAI Gold Mines. Guyana
Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML), which returned to the Wenot and Fennell pits at the Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) site earlier this year after leaving Guyana in 2015, will soon be pressing forward with a 5,000-meter drilling programme after finding gold 150 meters below the depth at which the pit was previously mined.
The promising findings emanate from assays done on untested cores from a 2012 drilling programme that were preserved by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). Continue reading →
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Opinion: Unmasking the History behind the Mask – By Yvonne Sam
By Yvonne Sam
Historical parallels and current public complaints about masking
Taking citizens to task for not wearing a mask is nothing new. In 1918 and 1919 as the influenza pandemic ravaged the United States, masks played a significant role in both political and cultural wars.
At that time as is happening now authorities urged the citizens to wear masks as a means of slowing down the spread of the disease. In the fight against the virus, masks of gauze and cheesecloth became the facial front lines. Now as was then, the government talked, the people balked. Continue reading →
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COVID Travelogue: My Escape From Pandemic Chaos In The U.S. – By Elena Christopoulos | Now
Having lived in LA for many years now, I had never felt such a strong urge to seriously get the Heck out of Dodge
Elena Christopoulos | Now
After making the difficult decision to leave the U.S. and return home to Canada amidst a global pandemic, my husband and I flew from Los Angeles to Toronto on December 1. 2020.
I was burnt out and desperately wanted to see my family, as well as enjoy the comfort of home after working for what seemed like a decade on the U.S. election. I’m sure many of you can relate, no matter where you are and what 2020 has thrown at you.
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Also check out the RECIPES on Guyanese Online.. Here are some links:
1. Cuisine: Recipes for Some Guyanese delicacies for the Christmas season
2. RECIPES From Guyana and the Caribbean – From Guyana Outpost archive
3. Guyana Recipes by Zorinaspice – 43 videos – autoplay