Days apart, Guyana and Venezuela registered wins in their age-old land dispute over the Essequibo — the 159,500 square kilometre (61,600 square mile) area west of the Essequibo River to which both ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suspected drowning of Courtney Benn, a 43-year-old fisherman of Wineperu Village, Region Seven, whose body was discovered at around 08.00 ...

President Nicolas Maduro speaking December 1, 2023 at a Caracas rally ahead of a referendum he hopes will bolster Venezuela's claim to the vast Esequibo territory ...

Is armed conflict on the horizon in the northern hinterlands of South America? The prospect of a military confrontation has emerged in recent weeks as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ...

Kimtse Kimo Castello cleans his equipment at his small barber shop in Port Kaituma, Guyana - Copyright GETTY IMAGES/AFP GEORGE FREY Kimtse Kimo Castello cleans his ...

Not long ago, few people believed it was possible to build a road bridge across the Huajiang Grand Canyon in China’s mountainous Guizhou Province. The gorge is deep, the river below unpredictable, and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana’s government Saturday formally protested to Venezuela following the completion by Venezuela’s armed forces of a bridge built on a remote river island shared by both ...

Venezuelan electoral authorities on Sunday claimed that 95 percent of voters in a nonbinding referendum approved of the nation's territorial claim on a huge chunk of neighboring oil-rich Guyana.

The discovery of a "giant" Arapaima among the freshwater fish of the Essequibo River Basin could have implications for ongoing ecotourism efforts of local Guyanese communities. A new study published ...

Earlier this year, Guyana was named as the only country in the world that produces enough food to feed itself without imports ...

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