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Mainstay Lake

Mainstay Lake

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Mainstay Lake is a lake in the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana, near the Atlantic coast, northwest of the mouth of the Essequibo River, 12 mi (19 km) north of Adventure. There is a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) stretch of white sand at the edge of the lake.

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Economic activity

A resort has been built next to the lake, a seven miles from the region’s administrative hub at Anna Regina, or through the resort on a twenty-minute flight from Georgetown to the resort’s airstrip. Mainstay Lake Resort hosts an annual regatta as well as a regular Easter Car and Bike Show.[1] The resort was closed for seven months in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][3]

A pineapple processing facility was established in Mainstay/Whyaka in 2002, an initiative of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) and Amazon Caribbean Ltd (AMCAR).[4] Due to declining pineapple farming in the area, AMCAR closed the facility in 2014;[5] there were talks of reopening in 2019.[6]

Settlement

Whyaka or Whyak is a thirteen square-mile Amerindian community[7] of mostly Arawak people. Arawaks were the first to inhabit the Mainstay area who called it ‘Quacabuka’ meaning ‘in-between'.[4] The village has a population of 576[8] and features a primary school (once known as St. Vincent Anglican School) and a nursery school, a health centre, a community centre, a ballfield, a chicken farm, a pine factory, a heritage park.[4] Secondary schooling is done in Anna Regina or Cotton Field.[4] The toshao is Milton Fredericks.[9] The location of the Mainstay Village is 07°14′09″N 58°32′25″W.[10]

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    "Mainstay/Whyaka ends collaboration with Amcar for organic pineapples". Stabroek News. 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
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    "Talks to resume on resuscitating the pineapple industry in Region 2". Stabroek News. 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
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    "Indigenous Villages | Ministry of Amerindian Affairs". Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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    "Publications – Bureau of Statistics – Guyana". 10 April 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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    "Cotton Field, Mainstay Lake get new nursery schools". Stabroek News. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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    Hollowell, Tom; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Funk, V.A.; Kelloff, Carol L. (2003). "Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1989 - 1991, Lynn J. Gillespie". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 44: 1–104. ISSN 0097-1618. JSTOR 23493216.
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