Berbice

[ bur-bees ]

noun

1. a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.

Example Sentences

The venture will focus drilling this year on the Corentyne block, the most promising of its three blocks, including Demerara and Berbice.

From Reuters

“Racism is connected to political power in Guyana,” said Deodat Persaud, a member of the government’s Ethnic Relations Committee, in a phone interview from the Berbice region.

From New York Times

Hundreds of Black residents took to the streets this week in the northeastern Berbice region where the murders took place, blocking roads, burning trucks and attacking Indo-Guyanese passers-by and businesses.

From New York Times

Those slave owners who survived were pushed to a handful of now-barren plantations near the mouth of the Berbice.

From Los Angeles Times

By the time the Dutch established their first colony on the Berbice River in 1627, Spanish explorers and colonizers already had a long history on that stretch of Atlantic coast.

From Los Angeles Times