{"id":14657,"date":"2023-12-20T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14657"},"modified":"2023-12-20T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:41:45","slug":"guyanas-oil-development-will-not-be-paused-amidst-venezuelas-threats-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyanas-oil-development-will-not-be-paused-amidst-venezuelas-threats-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana\u2019s Oil Development Will Not Be Paused Amidst Venezuela&#8217;s Threats &#8211; Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo reassured citizens that the government is actively working at the diplomatic and defense levels to safeguard investments in the Essequibo region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite threats from Venezuela, the Vice President emphasized that there would be no pause in Guyana&#8217;s oil development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro&#8217;s announcement of plans to set up a temporary government in Guyana&#8217;s Essequibo and the order for mining and oil companies to leave within three months prompted this response from Vice President Jagdeo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He acknowledged the seriousness of these threats but asserted that Guyana&#8217;s oil development would continue without interruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to concerns about potential impacts on foreign direct investments and the local economy due to Venezuela&#8217;s aggression following the referendum, Vice President Jagdeo expressed confidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that discussions with the local private sector revealed no significant reasons for concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While affirming Guyana&#8217;s readiness for any eventuality, he emphasized that specific measures would not be publicized unless deemed necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Vice President Jagdeo highlighted the bolstering of defense cooperation, but the government would not disclose specific actions taken to counter potential invasions from Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo reassured citizens that the government is actively working at the diplomatic and defense levels to safeguard investments in the Essequibo region. Despite threats from Venezuela,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14659,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions\/14659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}