Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says new field trials for quinoa production and expansion of wheat cultivation will commence in Region Nine (Upper Takatu, Upper Essequibo) and Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) in the coming months.Mustapha o
Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips is calling on Guyanese, especially those on the coastland and in Region Seven and Region 10 to prepare for an impending tropical wave, which is expected to sweep across the nation over the next five day
By Kurt CampbellKurt@newsroom.gyAfter spending five days in Guyana, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley returned to Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday and among his major announcements, moments after landing at the Piarco International Airport was that his go
April 28, 2021
Northern South America is heating up, and not just because of the massive oil fields being discovered offshore Guyana since May 2015.
Provocative Moves
On January 7, 2021, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro launched a series of saber-rattling measures against neighboring Guyana, most notably issuing Decree No. 4.415, which claimed exclusive rights in the waters and seabed extending 200 nautical miles off the Orinoco Delta. The decree created a strategic zone, the “Territory for the Development of the Atlantic Façade,” that abuts Guyana’s maritime space northwest of the Essequibo River where several oil fields have been discovered including the Atlantic façade of the Orinoco Delta up to 200 nautical miles.