Company Path Garden is a small garden on the west side of the Avenue of the Republic in Georgetown, Guyana, between Church and North Streets. During colonial times, “company path” was the name given to a road used by the propertied class as an access road from the river to their lands. The company path, in this case, extended from the side of the

Demerara River The Demerara River is a river in eastern Guyana that rises in the central rainforests of the country and flows to the north for 346 kilometres until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. Georgetown, Guyana's largest seaport and capital, is situated o ...

along the path on which the

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was built and eastwards beyond the Avenue of the Republic. In 1907, the entrance to the St. George's Cathedral, combined with the Company Path, was transferred to the Georgetown Town Council by the Government. It was turned into a garden the next year.

Non-aligned Monument

The Non-aligned Monument was placed in the garden during the

1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference The Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference was held in Georgetown, Guyana from 8 August to 12 August 1972. It was attended by delegations from 59 Non-Aligned Movement member countries, 12 delegations of observers and 8 guests. The Royal Govern ...

in Georgetown. The monument contains the busts of Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana),

Jawaharlal Nehru Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat— * * * * and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20t ...

(India), and Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia) who founded the

Non-Aligned Movement The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide. The movement originated in the aftermath o ...

for states that are not formally aligned with the major powers. The monument was revealed by President

Arthur Chung Arthur Raymond Chung (10 January 1918 – 23 June 2008) was the 1st President of Guyana from 1970 to 1980.

. The busts were sculpted in the countries of origin, and have been complemented by four quartz stones from the

Orinduik Falls The Orinduik Falls lie on the Ireng River, a highland river that thunders over steps and terraces of red jasper on the border of Guyana and Brazil before merging with the Takutu River and into Brazil to join the Amazon River. The falls are situated ...

. The Non-aligned Monument is one of the nine national monuments of Guyana.

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