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The United Nations Security Council holds a closed-door meeting on the ongoing crisis between Venezuela and Guyana over the Guayana Esequiba region, but takes no immediate action.
2023-12-9

Amid growing border tensions between Guyana and Venezuela, the U.S. embassy in Guyana announces that the United States Southern Command will conduct joint flight operations with the Guyana Defence Force.
2023-12-8

Venezuelans vote in a referendum on the territorial claim to Guayana Esequiba, which is disputed with Guyana.
2023-12-3

The Brazilian Army mobilizes towards the border of Venezuela and Guyana, anticipating a possible Venezuelan military invasion of Guayana Esequiba.
2023-11-29

The United Kingdom announces visa-free entry for ordinary citizens of Colombia, Guyana and Peru.
2022-10-18

The Bulgarian captain of Portuguese-flagged cargo ship the "Tommi Ritscher", who was kidnapped along with seven other sailors by pirates off the coast of Benin last month, is freed. The captain was kidnapped at the port of Cotonou in the Gulf of Guinea on April 19.
2020-05-25

Suriname reports the country's first death from COVID-19 as confirmed cases rise to 10.
2020-04-3

A riot at a prison in Guyana's capital Georgetown leaves at least 16 people dead. The riot began when inmates angered by a search that led to the confiscation of mobile phones set fires in one part of the prison.
2016-03-3

Guyana formally recognizes Palestine as an independent state as part of its "long-standing and unwavering solidarity with, and commitment to, the just and legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine for the exercise of their right to self-determination and to achieve a homeland of their own, independent, free, prosperous and at peace", a foreign ministry statement says.
2011-01-14

United States Marines board and seize control of a German-owned vessel, Magellan Star, previously captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
2010-09-9