GUYANA – A FRESH APPROACH – promotion in Forbes Magazine
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Bordered by Venezuela to the west, Suriname to the east and Brazil to the south, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (commonly known as Guyana) is a land of dramatic contrasts. Occupying a territory similar in size to that of Utah and filled with tropical rain forests, tabletop mountains, extensive rivers and the world’s tallest single-drop waterfall, it lies just above the equator on South America’s northern Atlantic coastline. It is the largest state in the Caribbean and home to the headquarters of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Indigenous peoples such as the Arawak and Carib originally populated Guyana. The Dutch first colonized it at the beginning of the 1600s, and it came under British control by the end of the next century. Called British Guiana until 1966, it renamed itself Guyana upon winning independence and became a republic in 1970. Today it is the only English-speaking state in South America. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organization of American States, an associate member of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), as well as a founding member of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and CARICOM.
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