WHEN night two of the 2025 One Guyana King and Queen of the Sand football competition continued at the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Linden office ...

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 ...

ExxonMobil discovered oil in Guyana. In 2025, the sale of this nationally owned asset has shaped the economy in ways that are simply unimaginable ...

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 ...

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 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 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.

It primarily focuses on gold, diamond, bauxite, and semiprecious stones. The company holds a 50% working interest in various mineral projects comprising 6 blocks located along the Guyana Shield ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana—More than 100 miles off the coast ... roads and shopping centers. They mine for bauxite and manganese in the remote areas of the country’s Amazon region.