Politics

The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of Defense, Daniel P. Erikson will travel to Guyana from January 8 – 9, as the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) continues to boost its capacity in the context of regional stability, the American Embassy here said. “It signifies the importance of the bilateral defense ...

Former United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Guyana on a private visit and is due to meet with President Irfaan Ali later Monday, the Guyanese leader confirmed. “We have a courtesy discussion,” Dr Ali said. He used the opportunity to credit the then Republican administration’s Secretary of State for his work in insisting that the outcome ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that plans are afoot to reduce the cost for crossing the Berbice River Bridge, even as government was eyeing the construction of a fixed bridge across that waterway in eastern Guyana. He did not provide any detail, about how that would be done but said government would be holding talks with the privately-owned Berbice ...

There is potential for Guyana and Venezuela to jointly share or exploit oil reserves that that straddle both countries, after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) most likely rules that the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award of the land boundary between the neighbouring South American nations is valid, an International Law expert said Friday. Dean of the University of the West ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that government would first be writing off some student loans as the first step towards the reintroduction of free university education for the first time in 30 years. He restated that government would phase in free university education for students who are currently paying tuition fees. While government has not decided whether overseas-based ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday said he did not know that a paper-based object that had been placed before him by an official of the Venezuelan Embassy had depicted a Venezuelan map with Guyana’s Essequibo Region. “While the photographs were being taken, I am advised that someone attached to the Venezuelan Embassy placed the ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday criticised St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves for appearing in a picture holding Venezuela’s map that includes Guyana’s Essequibo County. “What I do know, it sends the wrong signal more so if you accept that he was involved in the Argyle Declaration and has been given a kind of a ...

The Guyana government has received an explanation from St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves about his appearance in a picture with the map of Venezuela that includes Guyana’s Essequibo County, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Wednesday night. Ahead of an expected official statement by the Vincentian leader, Mr Todd said the Guyana government has been ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday defended the State’s decision to serve a summons to New York-based anti-government activist, Rickford Burke to attend a Guyana court for two indictable extortion charges. “None of the arguments that I have seen has pointed to a provision in the law that prohibits the service of this document overseas,” he said on his weekly ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday died on Monday, and already the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is mourning the loss of 0ne 0f the Caribbean’s foremost politicians. He was 90 years old. Panday, who celebrated his 90th birthday on May 25, was Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth prime minister, serving from 1995-2001. He was the founder and leader of ...