Sentence examples for guiana from inspiring English sources

We drive through Berbice, past sugar cane fields where people work producing Demerara sugar, and take a ferry ride across the Courentyne river to Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana.

ON JUNE 17th the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp, the only surviving example of a penny issue printed in the South American British colony in 1856, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's, a large auction house, in New York.

Along the border with Guiana, an overseas département of France, there's a smattering of French Creole.

The French territories of Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana do the same for Europe.BacktrackThe uptick in volumes is nothing but bad news for the Caribbean.

An American engineer thinks Soyuz manned missions will not work at Vostochny because the capsules will not be able to make emergency landings there.Meanwhile, Baikonur and Vostochny have a competitor: the European Space Agency's spaceport in French Guiana, where Russia began launching Soyuzes three years ago.

Enduring love A man of many tints Creating happy endings Reprints Related items Exploration in Africa: Lovers up the NileApr 22nd 2004 Virginia FiennesMar 11th 2004He made it as far as French Guiana, where, broke and friendless, he became stranded for more than 20 years.

It has already hit French Guiana, and is likely to move through South and Central America.

But bringing together all South Americans, including Guyana and Suriname (though not French Guiana, which is part of France) is both a traditional Brazilian aspiration, and a sign of growing Brazilian self-confidence.The presidential get-together comes when democracy, if not civilian government, is again under strain in several South American republics.

Leavers may gain full independence (such as Cameroon or Singapore) or merge more or less fully with their parent nation (Puerto Rico or French Guiana).

The number could be cut down if existing groupings could be widened for instance if Malaya could federate with Sarawak and Borneo, British Guiana with the West Indies.

ON THE cloudy night of March 23rd, 18 minutes after taking off from the launch pad at Kourou, French Guiana, an Ariane rocket neatly deposited a French remote-sensing satellite in its chosen orbit.