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In an address at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, President Irfaan Ali challenged world leaders and industry experts to confront the hard truth that renewable energy alone cannot meet the world’s growing demand for energy, as he underscored important role fossil fuel is also playing in meeting that demand. President Ali said […]
While continuing to question the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to hear the ongoing border case, Venezuela today said it does not believe that the ICJ can definitely settle the border controversy, arguing that the Geneva agreement does not cater for such an outcome. Representing Venezuela in the proceedings, Professor Makane Moise Mbengue, […]
The Guyana Defence Force has reported that one of its patrol vessels came under gunfire again on Tuesday while it was conducting patrol activities in the Cuyuni River in Region Seven. The GDF said its patrols encountered hostile fire twice on Tuesday afternoon. Both incidents occurred in the Cuyuni River between 4:10pm and 4:50pm, the […]
Cardiologist and Presidential Advisor on Science and Healthcare Modernisation, Dr. Mahendra Carpen has sounded the alarm on the high number of young people in Guyana who are dying from cardiovascular disease. In a statement, Dr. Carpen noted that in the past few months, there has been a devastating recognition of young people between the ages […]
The Guyana Police Force today seized a number of licensed guns and ammunition from the Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed. The Guyanese billionaires, who remain under US sanction and are currently fighting an Extradition Request from the US in the Courts, said the seizure of their personal weapons and […]
In an address that struck at the heart of issues plaguing the local press, former Editor-in-Chief of the now defunct Stabroek News, Anand Persaud, challenged the Government to do better by the local media. Mr. Persaud delivered the keynote address on Monday evening at a reception hosted by the Guyana Press Association in observance of […]
On the same day that Guyana was arguing its case before the International Court against Venezuela’s claim of Guyanese territory, a Guyana Defence Force patrol team near the Venezuelan border came under gunfire from the Venezuelan side, leaving a GDF rank nursing two gunshot injuries. In confirming the incident, the Guyana Defence Force explained that […]
Legal Counsel, Paul Reichler, who is among a battery of lawyers representing Guyana in the 1899 Arbitral Award Case (Guyana v. Venezuela) told the International Court of Justice today that Venezuela’s claims, which seek to invalidate the 1897 Treaty of Washington and ultimately the 1899 Arbitral Award, are “illogical, counter-factual and baseless”. He reminded the […]
Essequibo was never administered by Spain or Venezuela, Guyana’s Agent Carl Greenidge told the International Court of Justice, as he presented the Court with the historical facts in the 1899 Arbitral Award Case (Guyana v. Venezuela). Addressing a panel of Judges in The Hague, led by President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Justice […]
The International Court of Justice early this morning began hearing oral arguments in the case filed by Guyana against Venezuela, challenging Venezuela’s claims over Guyana’s Essequibo region. Guyana’s main legal argument before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is that the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela was finally and definitively settled by the 1899 […]
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