Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday said his government would continue producing oil, a day after the United States gave energy giant Chevron a month to stop operations in the Caribbean country.

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On Friday, 1 March 2025, CARICOM was informed by the President of Guyana, H.E. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, of the interaction of Venezuela’s military vessels with one of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platforms in Guyana’s maritime territory.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) –St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Wednesday said there will still be tensions after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers a judgment in the decades-old border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.

Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders say they have noted “with grave concern” statements made in Venezuela on the need to conduct elections in the Essequibo region of Guyana this April for a “Governor” and “Legislative Council” of the so-called “Guayana Esequiba State”.

A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week.

The ministry further noted that just months prior, Venezuela completed a controversial bridge connecting its mainland to the Ankoko Island.

Invasive brown algae is destroying their sandy coastlines, emanating toxic gasses that are killing corals and turning hotel guests away, while increasingly deadly tropical storms and uncharacteristic hurricanes are threatening to sink their already vulnerable economies.

Guyana and Venezuela clashed again after the former complained of incursion into its oil-rich maritime territory, which then triggered a warning from Caracas against “dangerous provocation” based on “lies”.

Washington backed Georgetown following the latest incident and threatened Caracas, which referred to Irfaan Ali as the “Caribbean Zelenskyy.”

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