I am seeking to find infromation regarding Isabelle Charmont/Charmeau whose last known whereabouts where Georgetown, Guyana. She origanally came from St Lucia and was married to a Benjamin Compton, but he died in a sailing ship trajedy.Isabelle from all accounts left St Luica about the late 40’s early 50,s and may well have spent out [...]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana and Argentina have signed a commercial agreement aimed at increasing the small amount of trade between the South American countries, an official said Saturday.The deal covers trade in goods and services in a bid to spur business among the countries’ private sectors. It was signed Friday by Guyana’s Foreign Trade [...]

Ariti Jankie South Bureau - Trinidad & Tobago Express
Government has turned down a request from sugarcane farmers to import labourers from Guyana to cut cane in Trinidad, the Trinidad Islandwide Canefarmers Association (TICFA) said yesterday.
TICFA said it made the application because it cannot get enough people in Trinidad to harvest this year’s crop, which began [...]

Keith Smith - Trinidad Express          
Conclusion
Wrongly, many people believe that “Jean and Dinah” was the first calypso Sparrow ever sung on stage but in 1955 he had sung “High Cost of Living”: 

“The high cost of living
Higher than a mountain
People like me and you so
Just have to stand and watch the
goods at Hi-Lo”
That year, too, he [...]

National Library of Canada, 395 Wellington St. (www.allakomi.com; ncguyanese@rogers.com) Feb 24th at 8 p.m. $20. The National Council of Guyana’s third annual Black History Month Affair is a showcase of talented local artists who retell the successes and strengths of our Black ancestors through poetry, song, dance, drumming and fashion. Special guests include the [...]