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The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
On 6 December 2023, a Bell 412EP helicopter operated by the Guyana Defence Force crashed in western Guyana, killing five out of the seven on board. [1] The crash happened about 30 miles east of Arau near the Venezuelan border. [2] The helicopter carried senior GDF military officers, and was reportedly conducting "border operations". [3]
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Guyana. 6 April – The International Court of Justice rules that the case of territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over Guayana Esequiba can proceed. Guyanese President Irfaan Ali welcomes the decision and commits Guyana to solve the dispute
Mahdia Secondary School is a secondary school in the gold-mining town of Mahdia in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana. The school serves students aged 12 to 18. Fifty-nine girls usually lived in the dormitory where the fire happened, but three of them were at home when the fire broke out. The majority of alumni are of Amerindian descent.
By 2023, BBC News reported that Guyana had discovered 11 billion barrels worth of oil reserves. [33] Guyanese Natural Resources Minister Rafael Trotman admitted that ExxonMobil had financially backed Guyana for legal disputes, [ 34 ] in addition to a "non-disclosed signing bonus" paid by ExxonMobil according to then president David Granger.
NCN is the descendant of two of Guyana's first radio services: Radio Demerara, which was founded in 1951, and British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS), which was founded in December 1958. The former was a British-owned company, and its licence required the station to broadcast BBC material for 21 hours a week, and programmes provided by the ...
Guyana [b] officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, [12] is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Kaieteur News is a privately owned daily newspaper published in Guyana. Kaieteur News columnists include Freddie Kissoon , Stella Ramsaroop, Adam Harris , and an anonymous columnist who goes by the nom de plume "Peeping Tom".