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Diplomacy

US paying attention to corruption allegations in police force

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 ...

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Kenyan lawyer and rights activist is new UN Resident Coordinator in Guyana

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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CARICOM nations will have to resolve differences over Venezuela -UNGA President

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 ...

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Security Council is “most undemocratic” UN institution -Guyana’s Permanent Rep to UN

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 ...

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US-Guyana security cooperation not about aggression – Irfaan Ali

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 ...

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Guyana, U.S. sharing more intelligence on small arms -top U.S. official

American Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Bonnie Jenkins on Friday said the United States (U.S.) was satisfied with the heightened level of intelligence sharing between the two countries as part of their cooperation in combatting small arms trafficking. “I can’t say how much intel sharing is actually taking place but I do know that we’ve been able ...

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U.S. Ambassador defends no information sharing on Mohameds, PS Thomas with Guyana before sanctions

United States (US) Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot on Friday said there was a “preponderance of evidence” against the Mohameds and Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on whom sanctions have been imposed for alleged corruption and defended the decision not to have involved the Guyana government in the more than two and half years of investigations. “They have to keep these ...

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Ambassadors tipped for Brazil, Switzerland, European Union

Guyana has appointed ambassadors to three of the world’s major countries—Brazil, Switzerland and the European Union (EU)—ending years of absence of top diplomatic representation there. They are Professor Compton Bourne who has been tipped to be appointed as Ambassador to Brazil; Dr Leslie Ramsammy as Ambassador to Switzerland and Mr Sasenarine Singh as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. The ...

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