Guyana

Economy
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ab563926-03b4-11e5-a70f-00144feabdc0.html

David Granger, a retired army general trained in Nigeria, was sworn in as Guyana’s new president last month. He and Ms Carbin are Afro-Guyanese, and the election overturned 23 years of rule by a party dominated by the majority Indo-Guyanese in a former British colony usually divided along racial lines. Mr Granger also talks of a “new era”, proclaiming that his winning coalition of ethnic groups ushered in “inclusionary democracy”. “We do have a rich mixture of Amerindians, Africans and East-Indians,” Mr Granger said in the presidential office. Mr Granger defeated the former president Donald Ramotar, who disputes the results. He was seeking a sixth consecutive term for his People’s Progressive Party even as it faced accusations of corruption and mismanagement. In November, Mr Ramotar prorogued parliament to ward off a no-confidence vote, and in February dissolved it, calling early elections.

Oil
- https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21724385-it-will-take-better-politicians-resist-corrosive-power-petrodollars-will-oil-corrupt


Venezuela
- In 1840, the British Government assigned Robert Hermann Schomburgk to survey and mark out the western boundary of British Guiana with newly independent Venezuela. Venezuela did not accept the Schomburgk Line, which placed the entire Cuyuni River basin within the colony. Venezuela claimed all lands west of the Essequibo Riveras its territory (see map above). The dispute continued on and off for half a century, culminating in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895, in which Venezuela sought to use the United States' Monroe Doctrine to win support for its position. US PresidentGrover Cleveland used diplomatic pressure to get the British to agree to arbitration of the issue, ultimately agreeing terms for the arbitration that suited Britain. An arbitration tribunal convened in Paris in 1898, and issued its award in 1899. The tribunal awarded about 94% percent of the disputed territory to British Guiana. A commission surveyed a new border according to the award, and the parties accepted the boundary in 1905. There the matter rested until 1962, when Venezuela renewed its 19th-century claim, alleging that the arbitral award was invalid. After his death, Severo Mallet-Prevost, legal counsel for Venezuela and a named partner in the New York law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Moslepublished a letter alleging that the judges on the tribunal acted improperly as a result of a back room deal between Russia and Great Britain. The British Government rejected this claim, asserting the validity of the 1899 award. The British Guiana Government, then under the leadership of the PPP, also strongly rejected this claim. Efforts by all the parties to resolve the matter on the eve of Guyana's independence in 1966 failed. As of today the dispute remains unresolved.


Uk
- British Guiana (also spelled Guyana) was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, since 1966 known as the independent nation ofGuyana. Its indigenous people are theArawak-speaking Lucayan, part of theTaino people. The first European to discover Guiana was Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer. TheDutch were the first Europeans to settle there, starting in the early 17th century, when they founded the colonies ofEssequibo and Berbice, adding Demerarain the mid-18th century. In 1796, Great Britain took over these three colonies during hostilities with the French, who had occupied the Netherlands. Britain returned control to the Batavian Republic in 1802, but captured the colonies a year later during the Napoleonic Wars. The colonies were officially ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814, and consolidated into a single colony in 1831. The colony's capital was at Georgetown (known as Stabroek prior to 1812). As the British developed the colony forsugarcane plantations, they imported many Africans as slave labour. The economy became more diversified since the late 19th century, but has relied on resource exploitation. Guyana became independent of the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966.

"indians"
- [世界地图一本通 published by yow fu culture] settled in the country since 9th century

China
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1701395/chinas-internet-watchdog-set-reveal-important-regulation-document-morning A Chinese commercial fishing company is seeking to operate 30 vessels in Guyana over opposition from fishermen in the South American country. Fuzhou Hongdong Pelagic Fishery Co. has submitted a proposal for permits to operate the 120-foot trawlers and drift netters, along with up to two auxiliary boats and storage and processing facilities on land. They are also requesting unspecified tax breaks for what they say would be an investment estimated at $70 million that would boost exports, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Associated Press.