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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 ...

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 ...

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). “I, too, have a mandate from the National Assembly of Guyana ...

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 President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro aimed at easing border-related tensions between ...

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 Post Office. “The consignee made good her escape when confronted and ...

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 be searched. The prison officer checked her colleague’s water bottle in ...

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, face to face, it has always been my proposal, because I ...

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. The US said the engagement which also included interagency personnel met ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday said he would be confining his discussions this week with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to the need peace and respect for international law. “I don’t want to preempt what we will do or preempt what will be the outcome of the discussion but we have made it very clear…and we are hoping that good sense ...