By GHK Lall In a December 16th article titled “Opposition Leader welcomes Guyana-Venezuela peace deal, but criticizes government for lack of preparation for Ali-Maduro meeting.”  I recognize the first part of that caption.  Mr. Norton’s criticism has its place, absorbed with some understanding.  If it sounds as though I am trying to have it both ways, or taking two sides, ...

…Facility will immediately supply 15,000 of the 30,000 square feet needed The University of Guyana (UG) and one of its key development partners, the Greater Guyana Initiative (GGI), on Friday, 15th December 2023, turned the sod for a three-part project which includes the construction of a new and modern state-of-the-art Science and Technology Building at the University’s Turkeyen Campus. UG ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has welcomed the Guyana-Venezuela ‘peace pact’ that was brokered by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Brazil, but at the same time flayed the Irfaan Ali administration for not having preparatory talks. “On the positive side, I believe that there is some relaxation of tension, commitment to peace and ...

By GHK Lall The Declaration of Argyle (Declaration) is sure to unleash a torrent of comments in Georgetown and Caracas, and other places as well.  Some will be on the delightful side, others critical.  I try for the clinical.  There will be this in both Guyana and Venezuela celebrating how they did well; with dissenters screaming their disappointment, and denouncements.  ...

The President of Guyana,  Dr Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro on Thursday night agreed to a peace accord after several hours of talks on the Caribbean island of St Vincent. According to the declaration that was read by the Pro-Tempore President of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean Countries (CELAC), St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro  held his first face-to-face talks with President Irfaan Ali on the Caribbean island of St Vincent on Thursday, saying that they would continue talks to end the controversy over the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land boundary between the two South American nations. “Venezuela and Guyana express their willingness to continue with the dialogue, ...

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 has all the right to exercise its sovereign right within its ...

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 Robert Persaud, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador ...

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 the ICJ forfinal determination and, consequently, the multiple prior methods for ...

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, were discovered in the bedroom of their rented apartment. Education Minister ...