Word: guiana
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...thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France's second system of justice, with sentences "more rigorous" than the government...
...very urgent need to eat." For two embittering years after World War II, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, sometime R.A.F. fighter pilot, searched for a job. He was a well-qualified physicist with degrees from New York University and graduate experience at Cambridge. But he was also a British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers. The young physicist got his job-as an instructor in Greenslade secondary school...
...inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana and British Honduras. Behind her, in Trinidad, Prime Minister Adams dug into the knotty problems-including overpopulation, unemployment, tariff and migration barriers within the islands-that the new nation faces...
...empire in what has been called a fit of absentmindedness, are now writing novels about its loss in the same detached, faintly surprised style. Anthony Glyn, 35, is by heredity both an empire builder, with ancestors in the Canadian hinterland and personal service as an apprentice planter in British Guiana, and a novelist: his grandmother Elinor set the century's early decades aflame with Three Weeks. Grandson Glyn has written an insider's account of the last outposts...
Presently grouped with the British Carribean possessions are British Honduras in Central America and British Guiana in South America. But these will remain crown colonies, and will not join the new federation...