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National Assembly sets date for meeting on Venezuela’s border claim

The 65 parliamentarians were Friday informed that the National Assembly would be meeting in another seven days to consider a motion on Venezuela’s increasingly aggressive claim to Guyana’s Essequibo County. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs dispatched a letter to lawmakers informing them that the House would be meeting on November 3,2023 at 10 AM “to consider a motion ...

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Venezuela asks CARICOM to broker talks with Guyana on Essequibo claim

Venezuela has urged the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to arrange talks with Guyana on settling the territorial controversy over the Essequibo Region peacefully outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “The position of the Caribbean Community must be to promote and facilitate a direct dialogue between the parties, which will return Guyana to the path of respect for Public International ...

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Guyana asks Inter-Parliamentary Union to condemn Venezuela’s planned seizure of Essequibo

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Thursday called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to condemn Venezuela’s moves to annex Essequibo through a referendum on December 3 Addressing the 147th meeting of the IPU General Assembly in Luanda, Angola under the theme “Parliamentary Action for Peace, Justice and Strongs Institutions” pursuant to Sustainable Development Goal 16 of the United Nations., he demanded ...

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Salary deduction for Natural Resources Ministry official’s “negligence” in ExxonMobil US$214 million cost bank

The Ministry of Natural Resources has deducted 15 days’ pay from the salary of Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai after internal probe found that he engaged ExxonMobil without authorisation in the reduction of US$214 million in the cost bank of an audit of Stabroek Block expenses from 1999-2017. The Natural Resources Ministry said he was not only fined but ...

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MP Patterson demands GY$25 million for immigration blocking his departure from Guyana

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, David Patterson is demanding that the State pays him GY$25 million as compensation for breach of his constitutional rights because he was blocked by the immigration department from leaving Guyana to travel to the United States (US). Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes told Attorney General Anil Nandlall on October 10, 2023 that ...

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VENEZUELA-GUYANA-BORDER: Bipartisan foreign relations committee agrees to table parliamentary motion, ramp up public awareness

The National Assembly’s bipartisan committee on foreign relations on Wednesday agreed to the framework for a motion on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy to be tabled at a House sitting and to accelerate a public awareness campaign on the issue, representatives from both sides said. Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said the priority right now was for the 65-seat National Assembly ...

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CARICOM says Venezuela’s referendum has no bearing on international law

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) notes the decision of the Venezuelan National Assembly to conduct a popular referendum on defending Venezuela’s claim of the Essequibo. CARICOM further notes that two of the questions approved to be posed in the Referendum, if answered in the affirmative, would authorise the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to embark on the annexation of ...

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President, Opposition Leader denounce Venezuela’s referendum on Essequibo

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton jointly denounced Venezuela’s planned December 3 referendum to make Guyana’s Essequibo County a State. The country’s two top political leaders also dismissed Venezuela’s attempt to give legitimacy to the intended annexation of Guyana’s territory through the 1966 Geneva Agreement, a framework that was inked to find a lasting solution to the controversy. ...

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President, Opposition Leader agree on info about Venezuelan migrants, greater public education

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday held talks about the escalating tension between Guyana and Venezuela ahead of a December 3 referendum that seeks to annex the county of Essequibo in clear violation of international law. Amid concerns that one of the referendum questions seeks Venezuelans’ approval f0r the establishment of Essequibo as another State of ...

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Guyana fears Venezuela’s referendum sets stage for seizure of Essequibo

Government on Monday expressed concern that Venezuela’s December 3 Referendum will lay the ground work for the annexation of Guyana’s County of Essequibo. In one of the questions approved by Venezuela’s Electoral Council, the referendum seeks the agreement of Venezuelans to establish Essequibo as a State of Venezuela, take care of current and future residents and grant them citizenship and ...

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