Tag Archives: Suriname

Guyana and Suriname have selected China Road and Bridge Corporation to construct the 1.1 kilometre bridge across the Corentyne River to link the two countries, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said Sunday. “China Road and Bridge has been the preferred evaluated bidder that has been agreed on by both countries,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Edghill said ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suriname’s Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin on Friday summoned Guyana’s Ambassador, Virjanand Depoo to a meeting and handed him a protest note to register that Dutch-speaking nation’s objection to Guyana’s plans to upgrade the airstrip in the New River Triangle. Suriname’s claim to the 6,000 square mile New River Triangle dates back to 1871 when a geologist and explorer discovered the ...

The Suriname-Guyana Chamber of Commerce (SGCC) is about to submit a feasibility study to both countries to take over the management and operations of the Canawaima Ferry Service and offer more daily trips across the Corentyne River, SGCC Chairman Dr Vishnu Doerga said Tuesday. While there are four to six flights between Guyana and Suriname, Mr Doerga said the return ...

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 ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Suriname’s state-0wned oil company, Staatsolie, has been boasting that his country has clinched a far superior production sharing agreement with TotalEnergies compared to Guyana’s with ExxonMobil and its co-venturers. He said while Guyana has 2 percent royalty and 50 percent profit split and no taxes, Suriname’s agreement provides for 6.25 percent royalty, profit split based ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s state-owned National Energy Company (NEC) has raked in profits ten times its expenses of setting up business in Guyana, that twin-island nation’s Energy Minister Stuart Young said Monday. Responding to questions in the Senate, he said the company earned US$5.3 million (TT$36,262,827). He detailed that NEC earned TT$350,000 (US$51,564.) for technical services, and TT$35,912, 363 (US$5,291,298) for ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We all love truth, but they are different kinds of truths. The truth most universally loved is moral and transcendental. We can call this truth in itself; it is spaceless and timeless. Then there is truth that is based on rationality. In this case, truth is based on cost-benefit analysis, on a logic of ...

ExxonMobil Guyana’s President, Alistair Routledge on Tuesday said Guyana should be concerned about a protection against an oil spill in neighbouring Suriname, even as he showcased a capping stack that is on standby to shut off any well blowout offshore. “When you do the modelling, Guyana should worry more about what happens in Suriname than what happens in Guyana so ...