CHURCH bells, conch shells, and DDT tell the grim tale of British Guiana’s headlong plunge toward economic and political chaos. A few miles outside the capital of Georgetown, in the rural Negro ...

Blemished, battered and cut, the "British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta" is a stamp with a twisty tale to tell, one that begins in the hands of a young Scottish boy and passes through the hands of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British Guiana One-Cent Magenta postage stamp from 1856, the only one of its kind to still exist, sold for a record $9.5 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday. The hefty price, which ...

The most controversial woman in South American politics since Evita Peron is Janet Jagan, 42, the American-born wife of British Guiana’s Premier Cheddi Jagan. Not only is she a white woman in a ...

To the untrained eye, it’s not much to look at. You might glance at this tiny scrap of paper, measuring just 29mm by 26mm, and wonder what all the fuss is about. It has a deep magenta background ...

THE question of frontier between British Guiana and Venezuela is now so much to the front, that a large public will be interested in this description of the history, features, and resources of the ...

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“Hello, late workers,” reads the cheery newspaper ad. “Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch.” And if timing is no ...

Despite great expectations, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp got licked in a much anticipated auction this morning. The diminutive wisp of paper was expected to set a new world ...

AFTER more than a dozen years of political turmoil and racial strife, British Guiana will achieve independence on May 26 to become South America’s eleventh nation and its first new country in more ...