A seawall stretches for hundreds of miles along the coast of Guyana, in northern South America. It protects the low-lying coastal lands where the majority of Guyana's population lives. The region is ...

Guyana plans to meet an unprecedented growth expected in its power demand by building a new gas-fueled plant and expanding its hydropower capacity, a key step to leave behind fossil fuels for ...

The High Court has dismissed a $400 million lawsuit filed against Chinese construction firm Sinohydro Corporation over the ...

This article was published in 2021. Here is an update from December 2023. For the latest WLRN stories about Guyana, click here. For more than a century, Venezuela and Guyana have been arguing about ...

South American country, Guyana — which has become a major name in the upstream energy space in the past few years — is seeking to increase oil royalties from the profit-sharing agreement (PSA) with ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana’s main transgender group on Monday welcomed plans by the parliament to rescind a law against cross-dressing, saying it has been the source of decades of police and state ...

Guyana is quickly becoming one of the hottest new oil frontiers on the planet. It is estimated that over 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources have been discovered in the Stabroek Block.

Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks is cozying up to a “repressive regime” in Guyana, claims a former political prisoner who said leaders of the South American country held him in solitary confinement ...

Hess Corp. plans to allocate more than 80% its $1.9 billion 2021 exploration and production capital program to Guyana developments and a two-rig Bakken program. Net production is forecast to average ...

Prime Minister Mark Phillips sees no contradiction in Guyana being both a fossil-fuel leader and a climate-change mitigator. But will Venezuela try to grab its oil? In just the past six years, the ...

Much has been written in recent years about the sweeping environmental benefits natural gas has provided to the United States since the advent of the Shale Revolution at the end of the 20th century.

IN a groundbreaking step toward transforming Guyana’s agricultural landscape, Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, on Wednesday officially launched the country’s first-ever nano-technology ...