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Guyana (as British Guiana) played its first international football match on 21 July 1905, a 4–1 defeat against nearby and fellow British colony Trinidad and Tobago. Their next recorded game came almost 16 years later on 28 January 1921, an away 2–1 win against its neighbour Suriname. The two played again in Suriname on 27 August 1923, and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Waheed Alli (born 1964) media entrepreneur and politician, Indo-Guyanese father from Guyana [2] Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Director of SOAS, University of London, UN representative, and Labour Peer in the House of Lords. Born British Guiana, 1954. Shaheera Asante, broadcaster, environmental activist Cambridge, United Kingdom, Guyanese mother
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.
Guyana (previously known as British Guiana) is a South American country that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean and is one of the regions which make up the West Indies cricket team. It has produced international cricketers in all forms of the game—Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).