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2. British Guiana - Wikipedia

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   British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. [2] [page needed] The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew.

3. The Guianas - Wikipedia

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   Before the arrival of European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basins in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by ...

4. National Communications Network, Guyana - Wikipedia

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   NCN is the descendant of two of Guyana's first radio services: Radio Demerara, which was founded in 1951, and British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS), which was founded in December 1958. The former was a British-owned company, and its licence required the station to broadcast BBC material for 21 hours a week, and programmes provided by the ...

5. UK minister to visit Guyana amid Venezuela dispute - AOL

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   British minister for the Americas and Caribbean David Rutley will become the first G7 minister to visit Guyana since a Venezuelan referendum saw tensions flare over the Essequibo region.

6. Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–present) - Wikipedia

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   On 21 July 1831, Demerara-Essequibo was united with Berbice to create British Guiana. Under the aegis of the Royal Geographical Society, the German-born explorer and naturalist Robert Hermann Schomburgk conducted botanical and geographical exploration of British Guiana in 1835. This resulted in a sketch of the territory with a line marking what ...

7. Venezuela will hold military exercises off its shores as a ...

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   Venezuela says it was the victim of a land theft conspiracy in 1899, when Guyana was a British colony and arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States decided the boundary.

8. Guyana (1966–1970) - Wikipedia

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   The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to her representative Governor-General of Guyana. Forbes Burnham held office as prime minister (and head of government) of Guyana during this period. The Republic of Guyana was formed on 23 February 1970 when Guyana became a republic in the Commonwealth. [2] [3]

9. The TODAY Plaza turns 30! A look back at three decades ... - AOL

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   On Jan. 14, 1952, the first-ever TODAY show debuted to American households, broadcasting live from RCA's exhibition hall at Rockefeller Center in New York City.