British Guiana
Britishnoun
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Along Venezuela’s eastern border, anticolonial leaders in what was then British Guiana were agitating for independence.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
The border dispute with Venezuela dates to the early 1800s and British Guiana, as pre-independence Guyana was known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
They also argue that an agreement among Venezuela, Britain and the colony of British Guiana signed in 1966 to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Guyana asked the ICJ, also known as the World Court, in 2018 to confirm that the border was laid down in an 1899 arbitration between Venezuela and the then-colony of British Guiana.
From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2023
As in British Guiana, Trinidad, and Mauritius, Indians were first brought to Natal to cut cane.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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