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In what is being described as a reckless and illegal act, Foreign Minister of Guyana, Carl Greenidge, disclosed on Thursday that the Venezuelan navy attempted to land a chopper on a survey vessel contracted by US oil major ExxonMobil,...

Venezuela, once Latin America’s largest oil exporter, ended 2018 with a whimper as overseas sales dropped to the lowest in nearly three decades, Bloomberg said in a January 2 report. Home to the world’s biggest crude reserves, the country exported...

Almost three days after Venezuela’s navy intercepted a survey vessel contracted to ExxonMobil operating in the western portion of Guyana’s Stabroek Block, the 15-member CARICOM body of which Guyana is a founder-member, is yet to issue a statement on...

The United States Department of State on Sunday said through its Deputy Spokesperson, Robert Palladino, that the South American country of Guyana has the sovereign right to explore resources off its coastline. The statement comes in response to what Guyana has...

Guyana said on Saturday evening that it will be lodging a formal complaint with the United Nations over what it described as an “illegal, aggressive and hostile act” perpetrated by the Government of Venezuela which saw the interception of...

News outlets from Trinidad and Tobago are reporting that there has been an oil spill which has occurred in the Gulf of Paria, said to be off Plat­form 9 at the Sol­da­do North Fields in South­west Trinidad. Reports say that...

It was disclosed by Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, on Thursday that the Government has spent US$3.7M in 2018 to fight Guyana’s border case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “This business at the ICJ is a...

…Anthony Paul on Petrotrin’s transition Energy Strategist from Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Paul believes two issues need to be seriously looked at if the transition since the demise of Petrotrin is to be a success – the regulatory framework and...

US oil major ExxonMobil’s move to undertake a new 3-D seismic survey covering 12,000 square kilometers on the western portion of the Stabroek Block could be viewed as Guyana and the oil company “building a case for showing their...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guyana says it is monitoring developments regarding military exercises between Russia and Venezuela in that neighbouring country. International media reported that two Tu-160 bombers landed in Venezuela on Monday in a Russian show of...