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Caribbean Community and Common Market Caribbean Community and Common Market
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), organization founded by the Treaty of Chaguaramas (Trinidad; 1973, revised 2001) and including Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti (suspended 2004-6), Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint... Read more
David Dabydeen David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen 1956— Poet, novelist, and critic Award-winning poet, novelist, and critic David Dabydeen writes about his native Guyana and the experiences of colonialism and migration. He makes particular use of Guyanese Creole, a dialect that blends African, French, Spanish, and Indian... Read more
Georgetown Georgetown
Georgetown city (1985 est. pop. 75,000), capital and largest city of Guyana, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Demerara River. It was known as Stabroek when the Dutch controlled the region and was renamed Georgetown in 1812, after the British had occupied the colony during the Napoleonic... Read more
Fred DAguiar Fred DAguiar
Fred D'Aguiar 1960— Writer Poet, playwright, and novelist Fred D'Aguiar prefers to be described simply as a writer. He was born in London but grew up in Guyana and belongs to a second generation of Caribbean-British writers. His work is often highly politicized, addressing a sense of... Read more
Demerara Demerara
Demerara , river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Guiana Highlands, E Guyana, and flowing N to the Atlantic Ocean. Georgetown, Guyana's chief port, is at the river's mouth. The Demerara is navigable for oceangoing vessels to Mackenzie, an important exporting center for bauxite and kaolin.... Read more
The Caribbean The Caribbean
CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN. The Caribbean is generally thought to include the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, as well as the mainland French Guiana, Guyana (formerly colonial British Guiana), and Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) in South America, and the Central American nation of... Read more
Martin Carter Martin Carter
Martin Carter 1927-1997 Poet One of the most important poets to come out of the Caribbean, Martin Carter has been compared to literary lions such as W.B. Yeats and Pablo Neruda. His most famous work was fueled by the political turmoil that gripped his native Guyana in the 1950s and 1960s. He... Read more
Wilson Harris Wilson Harris
HARRIS, (Theodore) Wilson Nationality: British. Born: New Amsterdam, British Guiana, now Guyana, 24 March 1921. Education: Queen's College, Georgetown. Family: Married 1) Cecily Carew in 1945; 2) Margaret Whitaker in 1959. Career: Government surveyor in the 1940s, and senior surveyor,... Read more
Guyana Guyana
Guyana , officially Co-operative Republic of Guyana, republic (2005 est. pop. 765,000), 83,000 sq mi (214,969 sq km), NE South America. It is bordered on the N by the Atlantic Ocean, on the E by Suriname, on the S and W by Brazil, and on the W by Venezuela. The capital and largest city is ... Read more
Tamil Tamil
Tamil Language spoken in s India, chiefly in the state of Tamil Nadu, by up to 50 million people. In addition, there are c.3 million speakers in n Sri Lanka and c.1 million distributed throughout Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, Mauritius, and Guyana.... Read more

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Guyanese for IDB youth forum in Israel
Newspaper article from: Caribbean Today ...America and the Caribbean," the Bank said...April 4.Other Caribbean countries that...known as the bread basket of the Caribbean, was forced to...Historically, Guyana had always been...individuals.In most cases, persons ...
Darcus Howe
Magazine article from: New Statesman (1996) ...He sits on a powder keg as he enters the job. The Caribbean community is gun-crazy, and now that some police...Being Guyanese, Phillips will know the dangers. Guyana is a basket case, torn apart by racial conflict just as our northern...
Pride, prejudice and the price of national honour
Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...an island in the Caribbean. Human rights...s Island, French Guyana 1895-1899. Captain...between the Dreyfus case and Guantnamo Bay...Jewish: the Dreyfus case is usually interpreted...found in a wastepaper basket at the German embassy...man ...
CRICKET: Collingwood's impromptu nose job relieves boredom.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...Collingwood rose to put away a basket but carried on running...big jump towards the basket and laid the ball off...nets, so it's just a case of trying to keep ourselves...competitive outing being in Guyana when they won a 30...planning for the 2007 ...

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