Diplomacy

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy is scheduled to arrive in Guyana on Thursday night for a three-day visit, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud confirmed. He said Mr Lammy intends to explore providing British assistance to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Guyana’s general elections likely to be held during the last quarter of 2025. ...

Trade between China and Guyana has increased by 31% for the first half of 2024, outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Guo Haiyan announced Wednesday evening. “Practical cooperation between China and Guyana has made significant progress. In the first half of this year, our bilateral trade reached $800 million, reflecting a 31% year-on-year increase,” she said at a farewell reception held ...

Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugh Todd has told Suriname that his country has an obligation to deliver all types of services to Guyanese within the boundaries of his country. In a carefully worded statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Minister Hugh Todd met with Suriname’s Ambassador to Guyana Liselle Blankendal and outlined his country’s position. “Guyana’s national policy framework that ...

France on Saturday pitched assistance to help Guyana with technologies and human resources to be aware of threats in its territory. Head of the French Diplomatic Bureau in Guyana, Jean-Jacques Forté said France would demonstrate its 3D capacity in upcoming drill training and “support for capacity to detect any near or distant threat by night and day.” “We are aware ...

Suriname’s Foreign Affairs Minister Albert Ramdin on Saturday said he was confident that he was well on his way to being elected the next Secretary General of the 34-nation Organisation of American States (OAS), having already secured concrete support from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) bloc of nations and several Latin American countries. “So far, we have received on the basis ...

Guyana wants tighter border security with its eastern neighbour Suriname as part of efforts to curb transnational crimes, Minister of Governance, Gail Teixeira said Saturday at a reception to mark that former Dutch colony’s 49th independence anniversary. “Cooperation between Guyana and Suriname is vital to effectively combat crime, particularly involving the transnational trade in narcotics, human trafficking and contraband,” she ...

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 ...