Guyana Guyana is a constitutional republic in northern South America. It has an area of 214,970 square kilometers (83,000 square miles) and an estimated population of 702,100. Once a Dutch colony, Guyana was ruled by Great Britain from the early...

The most frequent use of this vocative is in the plural, ‘guys’ or ‘you guys’ being addressed to a group of men or women, or to a mixture of both sexes. Such usage is rapidly spreading to Britain in the late 1980s, though it was...

Cooperative Republic of Guyana CAPITAL: Georgetown FLAG: A red triangle at the hoist extending to the flag's midpoint is bordered on two sides by a narrow black stripe; extending from this is a golden arrowhead pointing toward the fly and...

Guyana POPULATION 698,209 HINDU 35.0 percent ANGLICAN 13.8 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 10.0 percent ISLAM 8.0 percent PENTECOSTAL 7.5 percent SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 4.5 percent METHODIST 2.6 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 4.5 percent NOT STATED/OTHER 11.0 percent...

Guyana (pronounced /ɡaɪˈænə/ or /ɡiːˈɑːnə/), officially named the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America. Guyana lies north of the equator, in the tropics, and...

Highlights and Key Issues * Growth is forecast in the 3-3.7% range until 2010. Inflation rose into double digits in 2007 for the first time in over a decade, in part due to rising oil and commodity prices but also due to the...

Bridging a divide of language and history A PONTOON ferry putters on demand across the Takutu river not far from the small border towns of Lethem in Guyana and Bomfim in Brazil. It is the only surface link between two countries that...

Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik has apparently postponed plans to work as a security consultant for two Caribbean countries because of unresolved legal troubles, Guyana's interior minister said Wednesday.Kerik was expected to begin a one-year contract as Guyana's national security adviser in...

Guyana's capital will not be sufficiently prepared to host cricket's biggest event next year unless the municipal budget is boosted and local laws beefed up, the city's mayor said Thursday. Mayor Hamilton Green said the capital of Georgetown needs money...