When Guyana today seeks to deepen its “Caribbean‑ness”, whether through institutions, sport, music, economic integration, or diplomatic alignment, is this a radical departure from colonial history, or ...

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on the history of prisons and penal colonies. She is the director of the project ‘Mental, Neurological and ...

Historian Dr Estherine Adams, whose manuscript, “The Few Among the Many: Women’s Labour in British Guiana’s Jails”, won the Non-Fiction Award in the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature, is continuing to ...

A chronology of key events: 1498 - Christopher Columbus sights Guyana. 1580 - Dutch establish trading posts upriver. Much of southern Guyana is covered by Amazonian rainforest 1620 - Dutch West India ...

THE November 28 general elections in Guyana have resulted in a crisis for the country. While it is being suggested that the elected president, Donald Ramotar of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic ...

MediaCritic links to a “brutal historical account of Guyana”. An excerpt: “The present-day Republic of Guyana is an insignificant remnant of the old British Empire, the only possession Britain ever ...