Immediately after another excellent showing at the 2010 British Birdwatching Fair, roughly 80 tour operators, media representatives, dignitaries, tourism trade professionals, and friends of Guyana celebrated Guyana tourism at the annual “Guyanese Summer’s Evening,” which took place at the Canning House in London.The Guyana Tourism Authority, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, USAID Guyana Trade and Investment Support (GTIS) project, Wilderness Explorers, Iwokrama International Centre, El Dorado Rum, and Bradt Travel Guides co-sponsored the 2010 event.According to Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), Indranauth Haralsingh, the crowd’s first taste of Guyana came in the form of the country’s famous rum punch and samples from El Dorado’s award-winning line of rum. After being sufficiently sated with the physical tastes of Guyana, the attendees were seated and welcomed by Laleshwar K.N. Singh, Guyana’s High Commissioner to the U.K., who started the evening’s presentations with a brief overview of the positive recognition Guyana is receiving from international press and tour operators.Guyana has been included in two upcoming trips JLA’s 30th Anniversary. The two trips, billed as Trail-Blazing Through the Guyanas, take place in September and October and are completely sold out.Claire Antell,NFL Jerseys Cheap, the UK representative for Wilderness Explorers and main organiser of the event, was very pleased with the turnout of media and trade.According to Antell,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, “For such a little-known tourism destination, Guyana gets a huge amount of exposure in the trade and the media. We are about to have some very well-known journalists and TV in the country which will hopefully lead to even more interest.” Wilderness Explorers then provided an update on general tourism developments in Guyana, including recent improvements at the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway and Atta Rainforest Lodge.The GTA Director disclosed that Colonel John Blashford-Snell, one of the world’s most renowned and respected explorers, spoke about his expeditions to the remote Wai Wai Amerindians in southern Guyana, including the time he brought them a grand piano from the UK.Blashford-Snell is returning to Guyana in October to lead a sold-out expedition to Wai Wai territory to help the community members locate and survey a 40-mile access trail. Some of the high-profile media reps that attended the event included journalist and author,2018 NFL Draft Jersey, Sally Emerson, who is traveling to Guyana at the end of September on a commission for the Sunday Times, one of the most widely read and circulated Sunday newspapers in the UK.Ruth Anne Lynch, who recently updated the Guianas section of the Rough Guide to South America was also there, as were Bradt Travel Guides Managing Director, Donald Greig and Publishing Director, Adrian Phillips, and Lyn Hughes, Publisher of Wanderlust magazine.Another media company in attendance was Big Earth Productions (http://www.bigearth.co.uk),Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, whose team of representatives came to gather information for a trip to Guyana. Producer,Cheap Jerseys Paypal, director and host, Russ Malkin and one member of his production just visited Guyana in September to film a segment for a television show that will coincide with a book Malkin is researching and writing titled, “101 Amazing Adventures of the World.”Big Earth’s Louisa Edwards said,Authentic NFL Jerseys Cheap, “The event was wonderful and you had fantastic speakers. I love Guyana all the more now. It really does sound like a lost paradise.”

Jasoda Lloyd, a 26-year-old housewife of Free and Easy, Wakenaam, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) one week after delivering a stillbornAccording to reports, Lloyd,Cheap NHL Jerseys, who got married just over a year ago, attended the Maria’s Pleasure Maternity Clinic regularly. Her husband recounted that she had told him recently that everything was normal and she could expect her child on September 25.However, there were signs that all was not well as the woman’s feet were swelling regularly and her blood pressure was quite often increasing. Her husband said that on July 27,Wholesale China Jerseys, she began to experience pain and thought it was the baby moving within her. He said she asked him for water but by the time she drank it she vomited, collapsed and went into a fit.? The husband then rushed the semi-conscious woman to the Wakenaam Cottage Hospital.At the hospital, there was reportedly no doctor or mid wife on duty. The medex on call,Cheap NFL Jerseys, after examining the woman,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, referred the patient to the GPHC. Shortly after midnight that night, a speedboat was chartered to take the patient to Parika.? The river was rough,China NFL Jerseys, the husband told this publication.The medex accompanied the patient as far as Parika as no other medical personnel was available at the time.? It is reported that when she arrived at the GPHC she was immediately placed under surgery to remove the child as both lives of mother and baby were threatened. The baby was delivered stillborn and the mother was hooked up to a life support machine.The woman eventually succumbed yesterday. A post mortem is to be conducted shortly.There have recently been calls for a relief nurse/midwife on the island of Wakenaam. This newspaper learnt that a former, retired midwife who resides on the island was asked by the Region to serve the hospital,Wholesale China Jerseys, but although she agreed nothing has been done since.Medical personnel who do not reside on the island obviously need time to go home to their families for vacation, and when this happens there is no one to substitute.? Residents on the island are calling on the authorities to investigate this recent unfortunate incident.It has been reported that pregnant mothers on the island have been advised to go to other hospitals to deliver their babies.Efforts to contact the Regional Health Officer of Region Three by telephone proved futile.