Dutch colonisation of the Guianas control of the three colonies (Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo) west of the Courantyne River. These three colonies became British Guiana. After 1815, there were five Guianas, referred to by their dominant languages: Spanish Guayana (Venezuela), British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana, and Portuguese Guiana (Brazil). The colony that remained was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1975, when it became independent as the Republic of Suriname. Dutch Guiana covered the majority of the Guiana Shield, with its borders ranging from the Orinoco Delta in the northwest, the eastern banks of the Caroní River in the southwest, to the
What She's Doing Now What She's Doing Now "What She's Doing Now" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released in December 1991 as the third single from his album "Ropin' the Wind". It spent four weeks at the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was co-written by Pat Alger. The song is about a man who wonders what his former lover is currently doing and what her whereabouts are ("last I heard she had moved to Boulder"). While the singer has no idea what she is doing now, he proclaims