Friday, June 5, 2026
Friday, June 5, 2026
Environment
Local group to support students’ environmental advocacy, focus See below full release: Recover Guyana is searching for Guyana’s ‘Top Youth Environmental Speaker’. The registered Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has…
Carbon credit funds: Billions paid to indigenous villagers. How have they spent it?By Neil Marks neil@newsroom.gy Guyana’s pioneering Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), first put forward in 2009, set out how the…
Can Guyana help the Caribbean get the money it needs?By Neil Marks neil@newsroom.gy The problem is clear: The Caribbean needs money. Money for what? To bounce back after being…
Guyana giving CARICOM US$2M from carbon credits fundsGuyana has pledged US$2 million to a Caribbean climate adaptation fund, money that it has earned for protecting its forests.…
UN officials back Guyana’s focus on tackling food insecurityGuyana hopes more countries will recognise the existing threat climate change and conflict pose to food security. That’s why it…
Monumental $600M project launched to develop Amerindian village plansBy Neil Marks neil@newsroom.gy A monumental project, valued at US$3M (or over G$600M) was Wednesday evening launched to help indigenous…
Guyana spending $300 million to replant trees in mined out areas this yearGuyana will this year spend about $300 million for land reclamation and reforestation purposes, a venture that promises to help…
UPDATE: Presence of Sahara dust plume to persist until Feb 07 See below the statement issued by the EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency hereby issues an update on its advisory posted…
Local organisations secure funding for marine projectsIn a significant development for the local marine sector, the British High Commission has awarded grants to two environmental conservation…
COP28: Disappointment for Guyana as carbon market talks fail to advanceBy Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy Dubai was at the centre of global conversations and negotiations on the climate crisis with this…
COP28: The ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuels?By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy This year’s global climate talks, COP28, came to an end on Wednesday with countries agreeing to…
Guyana’s Indigenous peoples reject Venezuela’s land grab plansBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai vishani@newsroom.gy Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wants to expand mining in the forest-rich Essequibo area of…
Pradeepa Bholanath: Guyana’s lead climate negotiatorBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai vishani@newsroom.gy Guyana is making a lot of noise internationally, hoping to convince more people that…
COP28: Guyana argues that payments to save animals, plants in its forests are also neededBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai vishani@newsroom.gy When a group of researchers stumbled upon an “exuberantly- coloured snake” in Warapoka in…
Commonwealth: Guyana to champion action on forest, biodiversityGuyana will champion the Commonwealth Living Lands Action Group on sustainable green cover and biodiversity, committing itself to lead coordinated…
COP28: Suriname, like Guyana, says its vast forests will be protected as oil sector developsBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai vishani@newsroom.gy At the northern edge of the South American continent sit two countries, Guyana and…
Opinion: Carbon credits are benefitting GuyanaBy Melena Pollard, Toshao of Rivers' View If you boarded a boat in Bartica and crossed the Essequibo River, after…
