Confusion in British Guiana

The present situation in British Guiana must be traced back to the years immediately preceding World War II. Previous to that time, the colonies of the West Indies had lived in a kind of backwash of history. The overdevelopment of the sugar industry in the latter half of the 18th century had ended the era of fabulous prosperity of the landowners of the region, which had resulted in many fortunes, as well as in the transport of hundreds of thousands of Africans to the region to do the work in ...