GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American ...

NEW YORK-- Nineteen young lives were taken in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, a small English-speaking country in South America. The victims were mainly girls, just 12 to 18 years old. The tragedy ...

Guyana is famous for being the only English speaking country in South America but its residents actually code switch between Standard English and Guyanese Creole, which is often dismissed as “broken ...

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An altar server prays during Mass in St. Ignatius, Guyana. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey.) Listen LETHEM, Guyana — Edwina Tancredo last saw her 17-year-old son more than a year ago, when he and some ...

Kaieteur National Park in Guyana boasts a massive waterfall located amidst pristine rainforest. The small South American country of Guyana has long been a leader in natural resource conservation, with ...

IT USED TO be a disused sawmill surrounded by fields of sugar cane. But since oil was discovered off Guyana’s coast in 2015 the 52-hectare site in Georgetown, the capital, has been transformed into ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country. It ...

A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide. GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark ...