BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME! EDITORIAL ON PAGE 10 Vol. 39, Issue 51 BROOKLYN EDITION December 21-27, 2023 BORDER TENSIONS DIMINISH Guyanese president faces backlash over deal By Bert Wilkinson is before the World Court in The It has been less than a week...
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BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME! EDITORIAL ON PAGE 10 Vol. 39, Issue 51 BROOKLYN EDITION December 21-27, 2023 BORDER TENSIONS DIMINISH Guyanese president faces backlash over deal By Bert Wilkinson is before the World Court in The It has been less than a week Netherlands for final determina- since Guyana and Venezuela, tion, Guyana ended up agreeing which have been quarreling over to a menu of measures that crit- land border lines for decades, ics say gives Venezuela a victory signed a temporary peace agree- without ceding any ground. ment, cooling tensions, which In the build-up to the meet- have been simmering in recent ing, a defiant Guyanese Presi- months with troop build ups on dent, Irfaan Ali had made it clear Kamla Millwood, center, holds award, with Jean Joseph and MC Lion Benjamin M. Pinczewski, both sides of the border amid that he had had no intention of Esq. Photo by Nelson A. King threads by Venezuela to annex the talking about the border in any area it covets. shape or form, but
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