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“We Deh”: Women-Loving Women, Rurality, and Creole Linguistic Potentials

InterAlia, 2023
This paper draws on ethnographic interviews with women-loving women (WLW) in Berbice, Guyana, South America, to interrogate the Creole linguistic term “deh” as a cultural heuristic device central to the visibility politics in this rural community.
Preity Kumar
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First Record of Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) Parasitizing White Mango Scale in Kenya: Its Potential Distribution and Prospects in Biocontrol

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The white mango scale, Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), is one of the most destructive pests of mango worldwide. Its current management in most of the invaded areas largely depends on the intensive use of chemical insecticides.
Francis Obala, Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag, Rehemah Gwokyalya, Shepard Ndlela, Ingo Grass, Georg Petschenka, Sunday Ekesi, Samira A. Mohamed   +7 more
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Results of a botanical expedition to mount Roraima, Guyana. I. Bryophytes [PDF]

, 2013
A bryological inventory of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana (former British Guiana) yielded almost three hundred species, including 2 genera and 11 species new to science and 130 species new to the Guianas.
Florschütz-de Waard, J., Gradstein, Stephan Robbert   +1 more
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Guidelines for the Placement of Students in Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools in the Georgetown Education District

, 2020
The Government of Guyana provides access to free education at the Nursery, Primary and Secondary Levels. The National Policy provides for compulsory education from ages five years and six months to fifteen years.
Guyana. Ministry of Education
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Emergency Medicine in Guyana: Lessons from Developing the Country's First Degree-conferring Residency Program

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: Academic departments of emergency medicine are becoming increasingly involved in assisting with the development of long-term emergency medicine training programs in low and middle-income countries.
Nicolas P Forget, John Paul Rohde, Navindranauth Rambaran, Madan Rambaran, Seth W Wright   +4 more
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Financial Development and Banking Risk: International Evidence for the Role of Financial Institutions and Markets

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of financial development on banking risk using a panel of 125 countries (2000–2019), of which 92 are developing economies. However, financial development consists of advances in both financial institutions and financial markets, which may have distinct effects on banking risk.
Gabriel Caldas Montes, Vitor Manuel Araújo da Fonseca   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

PATTERNS OF TENURE INSECURITY IN GUYANA [PDF]

As of 1998, the land tenure situation along Guyana's coast was marked by disarray and insecurity. Renewed interest in land following the economic and political liberalization of the early 1990s spawned land conflicts and exacerbated their severity.
Lemel, Harold
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TVET Policy Framework: Framework for Guyana National TVET Policy Formulation [PDF]

, 2023
This document will address issues associated with coordination and governance, current labor market relevance, skills development, private sector engagement and the perception of the TVET sub-sector. In keeping with the Government of Guyana’s development
Guyana. Ministry of Education, Baffour-Awuah, D.   +1 more
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Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
As the rate of crime decelerates in the developed world, the opposite phenomenon is being observed in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean.
Anthony R. Cummings, Nakul Markandey, Hannah Das, Celina Arredondo, Aaran Wehenkel, Brittany L. Tiemann, Giyol Lee   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source