BOGOTA, Colombia — A British warship arrived in Guyana on Friday afternoon amid rising tensions from a border dispute between the former British colony and Venezuela. The HMS Trent's visit led ...

CHURCH bells, conch shells, and DDT tell the grim tale of British Guiana’s headlong plunge toward economic and political chaos. A few miles outside the capital of Georgetown, in the rural Negro ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British Guiana One-Cent Magenta postage stamp from 1856, the only one of its kind to still exist, sold for a record $9.5 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday. The hefty price, which ...

The most controversial woman in South American politics since Evita Peron is Janet Jagan, 42, the American-born wife of British Guiana’s Premier Cheddi Jagan. Not only is she a white woman in a ...

After 162 years of colonial rule, British Guiana will soon be going its own independent way. In London last week, following 17 days of talks with Guianese leaders, Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood ...

AFTER more than a dozen years of political turmoil and racial strife, British Guiana will achieve independence on May 26 to become South America’s eleventh nation and its first new country in more ...