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A taxi driver of Naamryck, Parika, East Bank Essequibo has been severely beaten and his neck cut by five Venezuelan men who had seemingly hired him to take them to Ruby Backdam. Investigators said the badly injured and blood-soaked 46-year old Shon Smith was rescued by two men and rushed to a hospital where he was admitted and later discharged. ...

More Guyanese police have been deployed to its western border with neighbouring Venezuela to support Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers there, amid weeks of increased tension over the territorial controversy sparked by fears of the seizure of Essequibo County. “As we speak, the police and members of the Joint Services are working very hard and we’ve built our capacity at ...

A powerful software developed by the Commonwealth Secretariat is being rolled out in Guyana to transform how the country manages its public debt portfolio of US $3.9 billion, the Commonwealth said Wednesday. At the request of the Government of Guyana, a team from the Commonwealth Secretariat was in Georgetown, the capital city, from 16 to 27 October 2023 to train ...

Venezuela on Wednesday vowed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that its referendum on December 3, 2023 would go ahead to determine its future approach to Guyana’s Essequibo County but at the same time ruled out the annexation of that territory. “The referendum is an internal domestic matter and is not meant in any way to result. in the ...

Amid a slump in gold declaration during this year, the Guyana government has decided to divide the former Troy Resources Mining concession at Karouni, Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) and allocate lots to small-scale miners, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat said Tuesday. “We have identified an area within the former Troy Resources property and we are allocating claims to Guyanese small ...

A 13-member delegation of American politicians, business executives and civil society representatives on Tuesday expressed disappointment that President Irfaan Ali’s administration has refused to meet with them on the thorny issue of racial discrimination mainly against Afro-Guyanese, allegations that government has repeatedly dismissed. Team Leader and former Chair of the Georgia Black Caucus, Dee Dawkins-Haigler told a news conference that ...

Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat on Tuesday said his ministry’s Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai-who was punished for unauthorised negotiation of the reduction US$214 million from ExxonMobil’s cost bank to US$3 million- did so due to inexperience. “I will not attempt to discredit any of my staff; if it was fatal but it was not,” he told a news ...

ExxonMobil started production on Tuesday at Payara, Guyana’s third offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, bringing total production capacity in Guyana to approximately 620,000 barrels per day. The Prosperity floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is expected to reach initial production of approximately 220,000 barrels per day over the first half of next year as new wells come ...

Guyana on Tuesday submitted clear evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Venezuela is planning to seize Essequibo County by force after obtaining a “preordained” popular vote in the referendum on December 3, 2023. Attorney-at-Law Paul Reichler presented a number of Social Media text and video posts by President Nicolas Maduro, Defence Minister Vladímir Padrino López and military ...

Guyana’s culture, especially its rich diverse music, is being digitised and for the first time placed in an Online portal for use as a teaching-learning, research and soft diplomacy tool, according to ethnomusicologist Rohan Sagar. “The whole website concept is an academic platform which was designed through Harvard University, and they are all created under the Creative Commons which is ...