Most visits to Guyana are trouble-free. Crime levels are high. You should take sensible precautions to protect yourself and your belongings. Road safety is a serious concern in Guyana with many fatal accidents occurring as a result of unsafe driving – especially by drivers of minibuses.

Despite the precedent from the Oakland schools’ resolution and academic opinion from linguists that establishes AAVE as a historically and culturally significant linguistic system, many institutions and individuals still regard AAVE as a broken and grammatically incorrect variation of standard English, negatively …

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community.

The population of the West Indies is ethnically heterogeneous and largely the legacy of an early plantation society based on slave labour. Most of the population is descended from enslaved Africans or from Spanish, French, British, or Dutch colonists or is of mixed ethnicity.

Belize, Guyana, and Suriname are also considered part of the Caribbean despite being mainland countries and they are full member states of the Caribbean Community and the Association of Caribbean States….Caribbean.