As a member of the PPP in British Guiana, he had been exposed to politics, since Dr Cheddi Jagan had held several meetings at Uitvlugt during the leadup to the 1953 elections.

Source: https://guyanatimesgy.com/roy-sawh-and-political-blackness/

Guyana had been one of Britain’s colonies; it was known as British Guiana at the time.

Source: https://guyanatimesgy.com/guyana-venezuela-border-controversy-guyana-confident-icj-will-confirm-longstanding-intl-boundary-with-venezuela-pres-ali/

It was the Award of the Arbitral Tribunal set up under the Treaty of Washington to find a ‘full, perfect and final settlement’ of the dispute over the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.

Source: http://demerarawaves.com/2023/10/03/opinion-3-october-1899/

The emergence in 1842, just four years shy of emancipation, of the first black newspaper, the Freeman Sentinel, initiated by the British Guiana African Association was a symbolic moment in the development of newspapers in the colony.

Source: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/06/25/sunday/guyanas-newspaper-press-a-convenient-historical-guide/

They argue a 1966 agreement among Venezuela, Britain and the colony of British Guiana effectively nullified the original arbitration.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23978950.guyana-warns-venezuela-profoundly-incorrect-claiming-disputed-territory/?ref=rss