THREE down and one more to go from a zone perspective in the third Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast as the final zone ...

Guyana, a sparsely populated country of about 800,000 with high rates of poverty, has seen rapid transformation since the 2015 discovery of oil off the coast of the Essequibo region by ExxonMobil ...

Venezuela and Guyana have agreed to a high-level meeting over the status of the disputed and oil-rich Essequibo region, following a flurry of diplomacy involving leaders of both countries as well ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is organising a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to create a new state in the Essequibo territory, an area currently under the control of neighbouring Guyana.

An area of 61,600 square miles, Essequibo represents two-thirds of the land controlled by Guyana and about a sixth of its population. It also borders Brazil, whose Defense Ministry recently said ...

A Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 General and Regional Elections found that there was collusion and ...

The Essequibo region represents two-thirds of Guyana and is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and other natural resources. It also is located close to massive offshore oil deposits, with current ...

The Essequibo River flows through the Kurupukari crossing in Guyana. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals.

The 61,600-square-mile area accounts for two-thirds of Guyana. Yet, Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial ...

Guyana’s people believe Essequibo is theirs and see no legal issue in the matter, said Cummings, who has written about the dispute and grew up in Guyana, four miles from the border with Venezuela.

Venezuela has laid claim to Essequibo, dating back to the Spanish colonial period and has contested the border set by international arbitrators in 1899, during Guyana's time as a British colony.