This year it seems to have been a little slow getting here, the country progressing tentatively after fortunately uneventful general elections, but the pace has picked up and the Christmas buzz is filling the air more and more with each passing day.
Christmas in Guyana has evolved considerably. We have made in the past few years, a great leap forward in the way we celebrate this most significant holiday on the local calendar.
The slow churnings of butter, the tedious (if rewarding) baking of cakes, the setting of ginger beer such little but essential things have all begun to disappear.
Modern ovens and microwaves are slowly replacing brick ovens powered by charcoal, halving the time and energy.
Anonymous aluminium whisks and wooden spoons have been supplanted by Hamilton Beach blenders and food mixers.
We've all seen the Needy Children's Fund advertisement on television, and know in our hearts that it somehow lacks the emotional appeal of the old radio ads.
There is something that cannot be supplanted during the Christmas season however and it is the Guyanese Spirit it is what in fact makes the Christmas in Guyana what it is.
As a people we have the inherent ability of taking an ostensibly religious holiday and turning into something that is owned by all, without diminishing the significance to the Christians among us.
Consider this assessment of Christmas in Guyana written a few years ago by a Canadian man, Xavier Catterinich, on a brief internship here:
"The mutual respect that diverse ethnic and religious groups show toward Christmas and their participation in the holiday is reciprocated at other times of the year towards Hindu and Muslim holidays. I find that mutual respect for and participation in the holidays of different faiths inspiring and even surprising, given the racial tensions that exist "
The particular quality of openness, of amity, that is peculiar to Guyanese is heightened to its greatest degree at Christmas.
If the Christmas season is the best of times, it is also, however, the worst of times in some areas.
For some reason, major fires seem to choose Christmas as the best season to manifest themselves.
December 19th, 2003 for example saw the burning down of the Muneshwer's building on Water Street.
And in perhaps the most ironic Christmas fire of all, the Brickdam Cathedral burned to the ground on Christmas Day, 2004.
Christmas, with its heightened economic activity, also brings heightened criminal activity. Fiends of every stripe from the pickpocket to the armed thug emerge out of the woodwork to make the Christmas joys of a few turn sour.
It is the Spirit of the Season however, which ends up redeeming those among us who may not have a Christmas as merry as most others.
Wounds will be tended faster, friends will help to replace that which was taken and a meal with friends and family will diminish whatever despair that would have taken hold of you.