Anthem: "Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains" Capital (and largest city) Georgetown 6°46′N 58°10′W / 6.767°N 58.167°W / 6.767; -58. [source] Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and (for over 200 years) of the British. [source] ...
beaten path. Bordering Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname and the Atlantic Ocean, Guyana’s landscape is a gorgeous mix of rainforest, mountainous waterfalls, savannahs and beaches. Guyana was first colonized by the Dutch, but later became a British colony, achieving independence in 1966 from Great ...
This oasis of parkland was once a sugar plantation and offers open grass, scattered trees, bushes and several ponds and wet areas. Here we had our first introduction to Guyana's wonderful bird life. We made our way to a quieter part of the park and began birding from the road. The ...
Against the background of Maduro’s present bellicosity, we must once again make this demand – this time to the UN Security Council where we now have a seat. We have to seize the initiative – away from our defensive reactions to Maduro’s manoeuvres. What we suggest is we mount an int...
The territorial dispute dates back to an arbitration award by an international tribunal in 1899 that drew the border between the two South American nations largely to the favor of Guyana, which was then a British colony. The Tunisia-sized swath of jungle west of the Essequibo river in the dis...
This ancient crystalline plateau was once below sea level. 13 MAN-MADE FEATURES The coast is protected by 225 kilometers (140 miles) of seawall and an extensive system of drainage canals to keep it from flooding at high tide, as much of it lies below sea level. The swamps of the ...
decades have argued that two-thirds of Guyana’s territory should be theirs, contending that the gold-rich area west of the Essequibo River — along with the concordant maritime zone where Exxon’s oil find lies — was stolen from it by an 1899 agreement with Britain and its then co...
The World Bank estimates Guyana, a former British colony on South America’s northeast shoulder and the continent’s only English-speaking nation, has had the worst economic decline in the Third World over the last decade. “We have sunk almost to the bottom of the table, perhaps just above...
scorched-earth strategy to oust the PPP Government once again. This time, they haven’t reached the “guns” stage as yet – but have been strenuously mobilising their base to get there. They’re using every trick in the book – with the race card coming out of their sleeves at every ...
There are severalpoints of interestthat most tourists do observe.Boy Scout’s Viewavails visitors of their first frontal look, of the falls on land. The exact site was given this moniker, because local boy scouts became initiated into their troops, once they climbed from thebottom to this vie...