Last Updated on Thursday, 14 December 2023, 17:29 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday  indicated that Guyana would not engage in any activities within its territory without enjoying its right to grant approval, even as he maintained that his country reserved the right to defend itself against any aggression by Venezuela. “I made it very clear that Guyana ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 December 2023, 13:56 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, in a meeting with several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday ruled out any “discussion, negotiation or deliberation” with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro later in the day. Accompanied by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, Foreign Minister Hugh Todd, Foreign Secretary ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 December 2023, 9:09 by Denis Chabrol By Retiired Rear Admiral, Gary Best; PHd (International Relations) I argue in this piece that the only matter that President Ali can possibly discuss, if he attends this hurried meeting, is for President Maduro to walk back all his decisions to annex Essequibo, particularly since the matter is before ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 7:17 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Trinidad Newsday A Guyanese mother and her son were brutally murdered while they slept at their Battoo Street, Marabella home on Tuesday morning. Marabella residents lamented the killing of innocent children, as the bloodied bodies of Guyanese national Hollice Skinner Thomas, 40, and her son Noel, eight, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 16:00 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday strenuously objected to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro’s expectation that Thursday’s talks will “directly” address the territorial dispute between their two countries.  President Ali vowed that the controversy over the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award would would be settled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 11:40 by Denis Chabrol Corrected to mean Venezuelan troops on their side of the border (not Guyana as was previously reported) in paragraph 5, line 3. Demerara Waves regret the error The President of Brazil, Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ Da Silva will skip Thursday’s meeting in St Vincent between President Irfaan Ali and the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 December 2023, 20:09 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Revenue Authority Monday night said its Customs and Law Enforcement Officers seized 24 packs of suspected marijuana that were concealed between several bed sheets that were imported in a parcel from the United States (US). However, the woman to whom the package was addressed, fled the Mackenzie ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 December 2023, 17:46 by Denis Chabrol A female prison officer, who allegedly attempted to smuggle marijuana into the New Amsterdam Prison, has been arrested with 289 grammes of the narcotic, the Guyana Police Force said. She was arrested after another female prison officer abided by the Standard Operating Procedures  that all prison service personnel must ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 December 2023, 17:19 by Denis Chabrol Even as Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Monday confirmed that he would meet with President Irfaan Ali in St. Vincent on Thursday, Guyana’s co-agent to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Sir Shridath Ramphal called on Guyanese to support their leader’s participation in that dialogue. “I welcome direct dialogue, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 December 2023, 11:54 by Denis Chabrol The United States Army and the Florida National Guard have assessed the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) military communications network, the American Embassy here said. That assessement was conducted from December 5 to 7, according to the US Embassy, as part of the United States’ and Guyana’s continuing military-to-military partnership. ...