Diplomacy

Venezuela was engaged in a variety of orchestrated cyber operations targeting Guyana, according to Assistant Director of the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) National Defence Institute (NDI), Dr. Seon Levius. The NDI said in a statement that in a hard-hitting exposé on Venezuela’s orchestrated cyber operations targeting Guyana, Dr Levius unveiled the faces, names, and organisations behind the malicious campaign to ...

The United States (U.S.) government has trained and equipped several officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) to intercept illicit firearms and ammunition, the embassy in Guyana said Tuesday. “Training topics included firearms tracing, methods of illicit export, global and regional trends in small arms and light weapons detection, weapons identification and their components, forensic ...

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is due to visit Guyana next week for a packed three-day agenda that would include addresses to Guyana’s National Assembly and Guyana’s Indian community, government here ann0unced 0n Tuesday. “The Honourable Prime Minister is also scheduled to address the National Assembly of the Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Also on his agenda is ...

The French Diplomatic Bureau on Monday began processing Guyanese applications for a Schengen visa to France, but already officials say there is a scarcity of euros (€) to pay for the processing. “Some people have difficulties getting euros because we are asking for cash and cash in euros and I’ve learned this morning that not all banks and not all ...

American Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot on Friday said the United States (US) was paying attention to the swirling corruption allegations in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). “We don’t want to be providing resources and funding to an organisation that has those issues but, again, they are just allegations at this point,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. Emphasising that ...

New United Nations Resident Coordinator to Guyana, Ms. Jean Kamau, recently presented her credentials to President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, at the Office of the President. The UN Office in Guyana said on Friday that the presentation signaled the official start of Ms. Kamau’s mandate in Guyana. Ms. Kamau, who is a national of Kenya, is replacing Ms. Yesim Oruç of ...

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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member-nations would have to thrash out their different positions on Venezuela, as the six members of the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have come out in support of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro whose re-election has been condemned at home and abroad. President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNAG), Ambassador Dennis Francis declined to comment directly ...

Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has declared that the Security Council lacks democracy because any of its Permanent members could derail a majority of members. Speaking at a discussion about next September’s UN Summit of the Future, she said the Security Council does not represent the will of the majority. “The Security Council is ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday night said the “extraordinary” security cooperation between the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the United States Army’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) is not aimed at stoking aggression in the region. “I want to make it very clear, because the propaganda can be different, there is no conversation between the US and Guyana in our security architecture ...