Sentence examples for Guyanese from inspiring English sources
noun
A person from Guyana or of Guyanese descent.
Guyanese voters will hope so, but cannot feel confident that the election will resolve the underlying rifts.
Eight of the jurors were black, two white, and two mixed-race Guyanese.
Guyanese troops reached Jonestown the next day, and the death toll of cultists was eventually placed at 913 (including 276 children).
I'd often heard it said that the Guyanese were prissy, and that it was only deep below the surface that there was a rich seam of philanderers.
It deserves another chance: a tough-minded dual portrait of a hard-up Guyanese cockfighter and his alcoholic 75-year-old mother, it's a study in severely compromised unconditional love that works hard for its unsentimental emotional rewards.
We often travel around by "taxi", which involves cramming as many people as possible into a van, invariably with Guyanese music blaring out as it hurtles through the streets, the driver singing along enthusiastically.
Race is another story: today as before, Indo-Guyanese the largest group—mostly back the PPP, Afro-Guyanese the PNC.
As she appeals to the mainly Indo-Guyanese rural backers of their People's Progressive Party (PPP), his memory is alive.
A history of disputed elections and ethnic bitterness divides the mainly Indo-Guyanese supporters of the PPP, now led by the 36-year-old president, Bharrat Jagdeo, from the mainly Afro-Guyanese PNC, led by a 72-year-old former president, Desmond Hoyte.There are more Indo- than Afro-Guyanese, but the PNC held power from 1964 to 1992 through a series of blatantly rigged elections.
The election was won by Bharrat Jagdeo, the incumbent, who leads a mainly Indo-Guyanese party.See article: Guyana's post-election riotsTrade ministers from 34 countries rejected efforts to hasten a proposed free-trade area of the Americas.
Under the new government, the prime minister will have expanded powers: he will chair cabinet meetings and appoint heads of state agencies.The role set out for Mr Nagamootoo and other Indo-Guyanese in the cabinet looks like something more than the tokenism that past governments have practised.
