The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Communications Guyana

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       80,400 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       87,300 (2002)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: fair system for long-distance calling

       domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines

       international: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad;

       satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

      Radios:

       420,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations: 3 (one public station; two private stations which relay US satellite services) (1997)

      Televisions:

       46,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .gy

      Internet hosts:

       613 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       3 (2000)

      Internet users:

       125,000 (2002)

      Transportation Guyana

      Railways:

       total: 187 km

       standard gauge: 139 km 1.435-m gauge

       note: all dedicated to ore transport (2001 est.)

       narrow gauge: 48 km 0.914-m gauge

      Highways:

       total: 7,970 km

       paved: 590 km

       unpaved: 7,380 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       1,077 km

       note: Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by

       oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km respectively (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Bartica, Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam, Parika

      Merchant marine:

       total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 7,475 GRT/8,758 DWT

       foreign-owned: Barbados 1, Panama 1

       registered in other countries: 8 (2004 est.)

       by type: cargo 3, container 1, refrigerated cargo 1

      Airports:

       49 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways:

       total: 8

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 3

       under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 41 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 32 (2004 est.)

      Military Guyana

      Military branches:

       Guyana Defense Force: Ground Forces, Coast Guard, Air Corps; Guyana

       People's Militia

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 209,545 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 157,264 (2004 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $6.5 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       0.8% (2003)

      Transnational Issues Guyana

      Disputes - international:

       all of the area west of the Essequibo (river) is claimed by

       Venezuela preventing any discussion of a maritime boundary; Guyana

       has expressed its intention to join Barbados in asserting claims

       before UNCLOS that Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with

       Venezuela extends into their waters; Suriname claims a triangle of

       land between the New and Kutari/Koetari rivers in a historic dispute

       over the headwaters of the Courantyne; Guyana seeks UNCLOS

       arbitration to resolve the long-standing dispute with Suriname over

       the axis of the territorial sea boundary in potentially oil-rich

       waters

      Illicit drugs:

       transshipment point for narcotics from South America - primarily

       Venezuela - to Europe and the US; producer of cannabis

      This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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      Introduction Haiti

      Background:

       The native Arawak Amerindians - who inhabited the island of

       Hispaniola when it was discovered by Columbus in 1492 - were

       virtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the

       early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola,

       and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the

       island - Haiti. The French colony, based on forestry and

       sugar-related industries, became one of the wealthiest in the

       Caribbean, but only through the heavy importation of African slaves

       and considerable environmental degradation. In the late 18th

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