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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A country of northeast South America on the Atlantic Ocean. The region of Guiana was settled in the early 1600s by the Dutch, who competed with the British and the French over the next two centuries for control of the coast. Awarded the western portion of Guiana in 1815, Great Britain established (1831) the colony of British Guiana, which gained its independence as Guyana in 1966. Georgetown is the capital and the largest city.
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- proper noun A
country inSouth America . Official name: Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
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What I see in Guyana is a less evident condition of press freedom restriction.
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President Jagdeo emphasizes that the LCDS is not a conservation plan, but a development plan structured around what he describes as Guyana's most valuable asset-its rich forest biodiversity.
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