US throws weight behind Guyana in territorial dispute with Venezuela

1. Ahhhh, that awful RICTUS smile again.

   Is Gaston 🥸 happy, sad, in pain, or just plain grimacing?

   I can’t really tell … 😁

   Just hurry up and fix the economy and the rising crime rates – that’s if you can!

   • Oh, BTH boss man 🥸, don’t forget to contact your Swedish 🇸🇪 counterpart, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in help in tackling rising crime rates here in Antigua. 🇦🇬

     SWALLOW YOUR PRIDEFUL SELF AND SEEK HELP …

   • Gastn hater. Are you sleeping well knowing everyday when you wake up he is still the Prime Minister of this country.
     And perhaps it is hard for you to understand, but time and time again you have to been told even by the IMF that Antigua is the second fasted growing economy in the region. We do not have an economic problem. We have a fiscal problem. But what the heck you don’t know the difference. So continue in your ignorance.
     And when it comes to crime, we are have the lowest crime rate in the region as as well. We just made ten murders for the year. Compare that with St.Kitts or St. Lucia or even St. Vincent and you will see.
     Don’t let your hatred blind you that much.

     • 👍🏾

     • Hey Gastonite disciples, why doesn’t the Prime Minister address the country about the rise in gun crimes and criminal activities.

       You and bertaboi seem happy with this.

       Absolute devil’s 👿 👿 the two of you. Putting Gaston before country!!!

       You guys aren’t patriots, just acolytes …

2. The US administration and President Biden bear full responsibility for the continuation of Zionist war crimes in the Gaza Strip, after their absolute support for it, and the green light they once again granted following the visit of their Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to the entity,” it said in a statement.

   see why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer at

   https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555

3. So why ain’t USA doing more an standing behind Haiti lik how they wanna stand behind Guyana? Oil involve so they sticking thier necks ain’t Haiti need aid an was not the Haitian gang problem here before that situation in Guyana?

   • The same reason why you are not doing more for the people of Haiti. When was the last time you sent money to Haiti. Don’t tell me that you can’t.

     Please stop pretending to care about Haiti. People spend money on what they want and the USA is no different.

     • @Bilbo from All Saints…do some research, on the USA’s invasion of Haiti, in 1914 and subsequent occupation thereafter with their puppet leaders/gang leaders.
       Learn what happened to the Bank of Haiti and its stolen gold which was taken to New York.
       Today Iridium, one of the metals which is very important to the American Space Force/Space Industry comes mostly from Haiti.

       Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
       De ‘ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat_Bastard

       Vere C. Edwards

       • Much respect @ Ras Smood, you know your history on Haiti 🇭🇹 …

4. Biden don’t even know what day of the week it is. Just like Gaston.

   • 🤣🤣🤣 Nice one @ Dutty Gutter, that made me laugh …

5. Anyway let’s now comment on the article. The headline should have read, “The USA pours more oil on the fire”.
   The old imperialistic playbook is still there. For years they have supported oppressive regimes in Central and South America. For one reason only. To exploit the minerals that these countries have. And the mess they have left behind is no coming to their doorstep. Large influx of migrants heading to their borders in search of a better life. The USA foreign policy is very questionable and contraversial at least. At one point they used to back Venezuela in their claim of the Essequibo Region, but since the people kicked out the government they supported and nationalized the oil industry, they are at odds with Venezuela on everything. They even tried to prevent the countries of the region to take part in the Petro Caribe initiative. A very noble and social idea from Hugo Chavez, in which he saw the oil wealth of Venezuela as not just wealth for Venezuela, but wealth to be used by the entire region. It was the first time that countries who signed on to the agreement didn’t have to worry about the full payment of their oil import. And especially for small Islands like ours, we were given lots of financial space, to use those oil dollars for other social needs. One can remember two programs implemented by the UPP, the Senior Citizens Utility Subsidy Programme and the People’s Benefits Program. These are social program were we use the oil dollars that were suppose to pay for oil to finance these social program. The down side is that we now owe Venezuela lots and lots of money. But that should not be a problem if we have or had invested those dollars prudently. We should be therefore financing those program with the interest of those invested dollars. And ever since the sanction placed upon Venezuela by the USA, (Our big BULLY in the world. Who decide who should eat and who not, we are not able to get Venezuelan oil any longer. However, God Bless Antigua and Barbuda, because the importation of oil is not really a government thing. It’s a public/private partnership. So although WIOC is majority owned by government it trades like any other private company separate from Government. And they have the financial capital to pay for their oil shipment. Can you imagine if the UPP had gone through with its plan to sell the majority shares of WIOC to PDVSA. The USA would have blocked WIOC from doing any dealings. And Antigua would not have any oil to import. Thank God for his intervention into the 2014 elections.
   Rather then looking for a diplomatic solution the USA is stirring up the flame and wishing and hoping Maduro will give them a reason to put boots on the ground in Venezuela and turn over a duly elected government. It’s all about the oil. Sadly enough the present leaders of Guyana are playing right into the cards of the USA. And they do so willingly and knowingly, because one should remember the 2020 election that were so full of corruption. In which the USA openly took side. They even blacklisted some of the opposition members as not to give them any visa traveling to the USA. Our USA bug brother still determines what is going on in his backyard. Imperialism of the 21st century. And what can we say or do. WTO had given us a ruling against them, but what the hell does that means. There is one above us all. They are called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IN GOD WE TRUST.

6. The oil barons who’re controlling the fossil fuel industry, and controls the US Government, in more ways than one will have it no other way.

   Similarly, while the US State Department would like the UN Security Council push Venezuela to accept the Ruling of the International Court(s), the US State Department MUST also accept the International Court(s) Rulings, and pay Antigua, Barbuda & REDONDA the millions owed to the Nation from the Internet Gaming Ruling.

   One thing is certain, Guyana will not be getting Billions in military aid from the US like Israel gets.

   #HYPOCRITES_at_Work!

   Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
   De ‘ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat_Bastard

   Vere C. Edwards

   • 🤜🏽🤛🏽

     • BTW, if Gaston Browne is a friend of Venezuela 🇻🇪 as he claims, he should act as some sort of mediator to try and prevent any future conflicts, but as we all know, Gaston ‘Hot Air’ Browne is a leader in NAME only.

       Thank goodness I saw the light. Phew!!!

       • Sleep well Brix. Pleasant dreams. One day when you wake up Gaston Browne will be gone. In about 20 years 🙂

         • Believe it or note Sidey, I really do enjoy our tètè-a-tètè’s.

           As a political adversary, you do not hide despite the number of falsehoods that you spew out. I grudgingly admire that.

           BTW, if you Believe that Gassssston has 20 years left in governance, Antigua & Barbuda will be unrecognisable and probably be renamed Gaston & Maria island 🏝 – you would love dat!

           PERISH THE THOUGHT … 🥴🥵😱🤮😤

7. I hope Guyana doesn’t allow itself to follow the path of Ukraine and get in a conflict with Venezuela hoping for the help of the US, we all know how bad this will be for everyone

8. This is the stuff that dictators are made of. What Maduro wants, Maduro gets. For years the people of Guyana have lived in this region now Madura wants it. The thing with these dictators is that the world is never enough. Even with all this oil that Venezuela has been able to exploit they are still poor!

9. When you have OIL everyone wants to be your friend. The Indian President Irfaan Ali, seems to have sold off the country’s minerals already to the American Oil Giant Exxon. And just like in the old days with the Junta’s a small groups of friends and families will get extremely rich from the wheeling and dealing with big oil. That used to be the picture in Venezuela for decades before Chavez came to power. That why America cannot and will not forgive Cuba. It’s not about human rights or communism. It’s about USA interest that have been nationalized. Check out the Helms–Burton Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms%E2%80%93Burton_Act
   And no matter how plain it is to everyone in the entire world, the USA doesn’t care. They will continue their embargo until Kingdom Come.
   Perhaps they want Cuba to repay them billions of dollars just as France did to Haiti. What a just world are we living in. A few countries come together and share up Africa and then decide how the rest of the world will live. Who can eat and when. Who can trade and who can’t. Who is above the law and who isn’t. Putin striking a supermarket is a horrific act of terror, but Israel bombing a hospital and killing babies is collateral damage and they have a right to do whatever is needed to protect themselves.
   I live with the reality that I can do nothing about this. So there is no need for me to get upset or be heavy hearted. I’m glad, at least for now, that I live in a part of the world that is very peaceful compared to some other places on this earth. Freedom is just another word, when nothing left to lose.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-QfMv7Fzw

10. And I forgot to mention once more. There is also an old border dispute to be solved between Guyana and Surinam. Years ago in the early seventies that lead to some military action. This has been tempered for years now, however in that very same disputed area they are finding several minerals such as Gold and Oil. And guess what the main oil player in Surinam is Chevron, just like in Venezuela. And Chevron is a French oil giant. The last time the USA bad played the French was with the delivery of submarines to Australia.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/politics/us-france-australia-betrayal.html#:~:text=According%20to%20interviews%20with%20American,with%20a%20dozen%20attack%20submarines.
    “Secret Talks and a Hidden Agenda: Behind the U.S. Defense Deal That France Called a ‘Betrayal’”
    Antiguans and Barbudans need to educate themselves about the big players especially in this region that as we would say “Run Things”

11. And I forgot to mention once more. There is also an old border dispute to be solved between Guyana and Surinam. Years ago in the early seventies that lead to some military action. This has been tempered for years now, however in that very same disputed area they are finding several minerals such as Gold and Oil. And guess what the main oil player in Surinam is Chevron, just like in Venezuela. And Chevron is a French oil giant. The last time the USA bad played the French was with the delivery of submarines to Australia.
    “Secret Talks and a Hidden Agenda: Behind the U.S. Defense Deal That France Called a ‘Betrayal’”
    Antiguans and Barbudans need to educate themselves about the big players especially in this region that as we would say “Run Things”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/politics/us-france-australia-betrayal.html#:~:text=According%20to%20interviews%20with%20American,with%20a%20dozen%20attack%20submarin

12. Editor: why are my sentences going beyond the margin of the page?

    • Because no-one wants to read it,Sidey! 😁

13. Sleep well Brix. Pleasant dreams. One day when you wake up Gaston Browne will be gone. In about 20 years 🙂

14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_Suriname
    Borders of Suriname
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The borders of Suriname consist of land borders with three countries: Guyana, Brazil, and France (via French Guiana). The borders with Guyana and France are in dispute, but the border with Brazil has been uncontroversial since 1906.
    Eastern border
    The section of the Maroni River on which the Netherlands and France concluded a border treaty in 1915.
    In 1860, the question was posed from the French side, which of the two tributary rivers of the Marowijne River (also called Maroni and Marowini) was the headwater, and thus the border. A joint French-Dutch commission was appointed to review the issue. The Dutch side of the commission consisted of J.H. Baron van Heerdt tot Eversberg, J.F.A. Cateau van Rosevelt and August Kappler. Luits Vidal, Ronmy, Boudet and Dr. Rech composed the French side. In 1861 measurements were taken, which produced the following result: the Lawa had a flow rate of 35,960 m3/minute at a width of 436 m; the Tapanahony had a flow rate of 20,291 m3/minute at a width of 285 m. Thus, the Lawa River was the headwater of the Maroni River.
    There were no problems with this decision until 1885, when the discovery of gold in the area between the Lawa and the Tapanahony created a new border conflict. On November 29, 1888, France and the Netherlands reached an agreement that the conflict should be subject to arbitration. Tsar Alexander III of Russia, acting as the arbitrator, decided that the Lawa was the headwater of the Maroni, and thus should be considered the border. The Netherlands and France concluded a border treaty on this section of the river on 30 September 1915. A protocol delineating the border from the mouth of the Maroni up to the village of Antecume Pata was attached to this treaty on 15 March 2021.[1]
    However, neither the 1915 treaty nor the 2021 protocol determines which river is the source of the Lawa. The Netherlands considered the Malani (Dutch: Marowijnekreek) to be the source of the Lawa; the French considered the Litani, located further to the west, to be the source of the Lawa. This issue has still not been resolved.[2]
    The Litani originates in the Tumuk Humak Mountains at approximately 2½° N 55° W; along its path it is fed by Koele Koelekreek, the Lokekreek, the Mapaonikreek and the Oelemari River.
    The Malani also has its source in the Tumuk Humak Mountains, at approximately 2° N, 54° W; it also absorbs the Koelebreek, among others.
    Western border
    The boundaries of British Guiana according to the Schomburgk survey.
    According to an agreement between Suriname governor Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck and Berbice governor Abraham van Pere—both were Dutch colonies at the time—the border between the two colonies was located at Devil Creek, between the Berbice River and the Courantyne River. In 1799, however, Berbice governor Abraham Jacob van Imbijze van Batenburg and Suriname governor Jurriaan François de Friderici signed an agreement in which the western bank of the Courantyne River was demarcated as the boundary. All islands in the Courantyne, as well as the post at Orealla, were deemed to be in Suriname.[3] As the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 returned Suriname to Dutch rule in the boundaries of 1 January 1803, the Courantyne became the new boundary between British Guiana and Suriname.
    New River Triangle[edit]
    Main article: Tigri Area
    Robert Schomburgk surveyed British Guiana’s borders in 1840. Taking the Courantyne River as the border, he sailed up to which he deemed its source, the Kutari River, in order to delineate the boundary. In 1871, however, Charles Barrington Brown discovered the New River or Upper Courantyne, which is the source of the Courantyne. Thus the New River Triangle dispute was born.
    The tribunal which dealt with the Venezuelan crisis of 1895 also awarded the New River Triangle to British Guiana. The Netherlands, however, raised a diplomatic protest, claiming that the New River, and not the Kutari, was to be regarded as the source of the Courantyne and the boundary. The British government in 1900 replied that the issue was already settled by the long acceptance of the Kutari as the boundary.
    In 1936, a Mixed Commission established by the British and Dutch government agreed to award the full width of the Courantyne River to Suriname, as per the 1799 agreement. The territorial sea boundary was deemed to prolongate 10° from Point No. 61, 6 km (3 nmi) from the shore. The New River Triangle, however, was completely awarded to Guyana. The treaty putting this agreement into law was never ratified, because of the outbreak of World War II.[4] That same year, the Dutch representative Conrad Carel Käyser signed an agreement with British and Brazilian representatives, placing the tri-point junction near the source of the Kutari River.[5]
    Desiring to put the border issue to a closure before British Guiana would gain independence, the British government restarted negotiations in 1961. The British position asserted “Dutch sovereignty over the Corentyne River, a 10° line dividing the territorial sea, and British control over the New River Triangle.”[6] The Netherlands replied with a formal claim to the New River Triangle, but with a thalweg boundary in the Courantyne River (the latter position has never been repeated by any Surinamese government). No agreements were made and Guyana became independent with its borders unresolved. In 1969 border skirmishes occurred between Guyanese forces and Surinamese militias at Camp Tigri. In 1971, the Surinamese and Guyanese government agreed in Trinidad to withdraw military forces from the Triangle. Until present Guyana hasn’t withdrawn any of its military forces and still holds a firm grip on the New River Triangle.[citation needed]
    Maritime dispute[edit]
    The maritime boundary has long been disputed between Guyana and Suriname as well, and led in 2000 to skirmishes between Guyanese oil explorers and Surinamese coast guards.[7] Guyana claimed a thalweg boundary of the Courantyne River (probably inspired by the 1962 Dutch position), and a 35° line from the true North, from the mouth of the river. Suriname claimed sovereignty over the full width of the Courantyne and a 10° dividing line. Eventually a five-member tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration was convened under the rules set out in Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which in 2007 set out its own boundary that differed from both parties’ claims. The maritime border was finally settled by international arbitration.[8] The tribunal did award sovereignty over the full width of the Courantyne to Suriname, and also awarded Suriname with a 10° territorial sea boundary 6 km (3 nmi) from the shore, according to the 1936 agreement. The rest of the territorial sea boundary, which extends 22 km (12 nmi) from the shore under modern international law, and the boundary separating the Exclusive Economic Zones of both countries, was awarded according to the principle of equidistance, however.[9][10]

    Caricom is meeting today to discus the border issue between Guyana and Venezuela. However CARICOM still has not settled the border dispute between Surinam and Guyana and Surinam and French Guyana. Our Colonial Masters The British and the Dutch have left a real mess for us to clean up.
    My suggestion is, to share any ECONOMIC benefit between the two countries for a long period of time. And negotiations will determine the ratio of this sharing. But aggression should not even be a thought. It’s all about the oil. So let us share the oil.

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