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 ...

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 ...

“Hello, late workers,” reads the cheery newspaper ad. “Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch.” And if timing is no ...

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Despite great expectations, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp got licked in a much anticipated auction this morning. The diminutive wisp of paper was expected to set a new world ...

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. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A ...

The collection consists of material, including manuscripts, drawings, and maps, created and collected by Joseph H. H. Holmes in British Guiana (now Guyana). Sketches are of various subjects including ...

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 (5.6 million pounds) at Sotheby's on Tuesday.