But in the mid-1970s, Burnham took control of the country’s resources, nationalizing sugar production as well as bauxite mining. Like other former colonies, Guyana wanted to make its break with ...

Delving into several aspects of the government’s plans to propel the country, the President detailed how Guyana’s infrastructure is being rapidly ...

In West Africa, Guinea, and Ghana, hold substantial bauxite reserves by country. In the Americas, the largest reserves are found in Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname. Bauxite is a sedimentary rock ...

Guyana has seen fierce political rivalry between the two main ethnically-based parties. Most of the country is covered in tropical rainforest and, despite having rich reserves of bauxite ...

Living conditions had deteriorated in the intervening years, but by the 1990s the policies were having their desired effect – foreign capital was returning to Guyana, attracted by cheap concessions ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has reaffirmed the country's support for the territorial integrity of Guyana, amid ...

Guyana was once one of the poorest countries in South America despite large reserves of gold, diamonds and bauxite. But it has been awash in money after a consortium led by ExxonMobil discovered ...

In the 20th century, American corporations came to Guyana, mining for bauxite and gold. By the 1950s, they also hunted for oil, but decades of effort proved largely futile. In 1992, Guyana held ...

In August 2024, Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, announced that the country’s oil reserves had grown by 600 million barrels to 11.6 billion barrels.