r/Guyana

Am I wrong? From when I remembered back home, 30+ years ago, we never had any food that had goat meat. I came to Canada and had Jamaican and Trini foods and they both had goat in their meals. I'm sure it's different now in Guyana but I wish I'm wrong.

Edit... If you find what I'm saying is wrong about the lack of Guyanese goat meals back in the older days. Talk to your older families and or friends to see if they agree with you or me.

I’ll be spending just one full day in Georgetown soon and I’m trying to make the most of it without falling into the usual tourist traps.

I’ve done some research already, but I’d love to hear from people who actually know the city.

A few questions:
- What’s the best way to get from Cheddi Jagan Airport to Georgetown? Taxi? Shuttle? Ride-hailing app?
- Roughly how much should I expect to pay so I don’t get the “first-time visitor” price?
- Any recommendations for a safe and walkable area to stay for under $150 USD/night?
- Also, how concerned should I be about mosquitoes and insects in Georgetown? Is carrying insect repellent generally sufficient, or are there additional precautions that visitors typically take?

A bit about what I’m looking for:
I’m not really a museum person. I’d rather spend the day walking around, people-watching, trying local food, and getting a feel for everyday life in Guyana.

One of the things that interests me most is Guyana’s cultural mix. I’d love to experience that diversity firsthand, whether through food, neighborhoods, markets, events, or just places where locals actually spend time.

Food-wise, I’m definitely interested in:
- Guyanese food
- Indo-Guyanese food
- Chinese-Guyanese food

Anything locals would consider a must-try
I also looked into guided tours, but most of the ones I found were $200+ for a day, which honestly feels a bit wild considering I’m only there for a short stop.

Also, are there any areas I should avoid? I read at a travelers blog that there are active gangs in the way to New Amsterdam and even in some neighborhoods in Georgetown…

Thanks in advance for any info 🫰

how the hell did that become a guyanese traditional item?

Why does Guyana get so many power outages and why has this problem never been fixed? How does Guyana best solve this?

thanks

Hello all. If my family and I visit for a month or two, what is the likelihood that one of us will get Dengue or Malaria? How common is it? Does everyone get it as a rite of passage or is it avoidable if we are careful about using repellant? I’m looking for some real insight from people who live here. We want to explore some of the non-city areas if we come, so let me know if that makes a difference. Thanks for any insight or wisdom you can share. Any other major risks to be aware of?

A low-trust society is one where people cannot generally rely on strangers, businesses, public officials, institutions, prices, rules, contracts, timelines, or basic honesty. Life becomes a constant exercise in suspicion, self-protection, bribery, personal connections, pressure, and vigilance. The result is a society that is mentally exhausting, inefficient, corruptible, hard to govern, unattractive to tourists and investors, and unable to reach its full potential.

A high-trust society is the opposite: people can generally rely on rules, institutions, public servants, businesses, contracts, prices, and strangers to behave fairly and predictably. The result is a society where life is easier, institutions work better, business is more efficient, people cooperate more freely, and citizens can spend more energy building their lives instead of protecting themselves from each other.

My question is: can Guyana realistically become a high-trust society, and if so, over what timeline?

My concern is that Guyana’s low-trust culture is not a surface-level problem. It seems to be part of a much deeper inherited pattern. Guyana was shaped mainly by people descended from India and Africa, and many societies in India and Africa have also struggled for a very long time with corruption, weak public trust, bribery, patronage, weak institutions, and low confidence in strangers or public systems. The same broad patterns exist there and here, and that does not seem coincidental.

The usual explanation is that Guyana has weak institutions. But institutions are made up of people, and those people come from a culture. If the wider culture tolerates dishonesty, bribery, opportunism, favouritism, weak public duty, and getting ahead at the expense of others, then those same habits will show up inside government, business, law enforcement, the courts, public offices, and private companies. A corrupt person does not become principled simply because they enter an institution. If anything, putting many people with the same low-trust habits together may simply multiply the problem under an official name.

So the uncomfortable question is this: are these low-trust patterns mainly the result of changeable culture, history, institutions, and incentives, or are they so deeply rooted in the peoples and cultures involved that they are extremely difficult, maybe almost impossible, to transcend?

I do not mean that people merely need to say they value honesty, fairness, public duty, accountability, and rule-following. Most people already claim to value those things. I mean: can a culture change so that enough people actually embody those ideals, even when doing so costs them money, status, convenience, or personal advantage?

If the same populations and cultural habits have produced low-trust societies in Guyana, India, and many African countries for generations, what would realistically cause the opposite to emerge here? Are we talking about a transformation that could happen in 10 years, 30 years, 100 years, or is this the kind of deep civilizational pattern that is unlikely to change in any practical timeframe?

Looking for my future wife
37m have my own place

Should I become a civil engineer or Hussle like most Guyanese do?? And how much do civil engineer typically make per month or year??

TLDR: It seems that a foreign country has made a very large push into the Caribbean and Latin American region when it comes to cyber security. They are present in the cybersecurity field across the whole region, and I am wondering why the region is outsourcing this work to foreign firms, when each country should recognize that outsourcing cybersecurity leaves each country vulnerable to backdoors in the cyber infrastructure.

This article details how this foreign country has expanded in the cybersecurity field across the whole Latin American and Caribbean region:

https://www.iadb.org/en/news/israel-commits-idb-cybersecurity-initiative-latin-america-and-caribbean

Jamaica and Trinidad:

https://wiredja.com/index.php/categories/newsberg/news/jamaicas-digital-entanglement-with-israeli-intelligence-operations

Guyana (referencing the "working on cybersecurity" portion)

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6991561/jewish/Guyanas-Last-Jew-Happily-Dethroned-as-Chabads-Roving-Rabbis-Build-Community.htm

Dominican Republic:

https://www.armadainternational.com/2020/02/rafael-wins-an-international-tender-published-by-the-dominican-republic-central-bank/

The foreign state's dominance in cybersecurity is detailed below:

https://ventureinsecurity.net/p/what-israeli-dominance-in-cyber-means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_cybersecurity_industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(spyware_company)