Wikipedia Commons / Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos on Tuesday announced that she is to step down from the board of Unitel, the country’s largest telecommunications operator, in which
Credit: CARICOM / CARICOM Chairman, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The Caribbean Community-CARICOM is calling on Guyana’s elections commission to declare opposition candidate Irfaan Ali as the winner of March’s disputed vote and for President David Granger to
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / AlfvanBeem / Iranian oil tanker, Dena, seen approaching Port of Rotterdam, Holland on 15 December 2007 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United States prosecutors filed a Federal Court action Wednesday seeking seizure of all Iranian gasoline aboard four tankers headed
Credit: scmwiki2012.wordpress.com/ The Venezuelan military escorted Iranian tankers delivering a crucial supply of petrol to the country to foil any attempt by the US to stop them. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who
Credit: U.S. Department of State / U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook at the announcement of the creation of the Iran Action Group in the Press Briefing Room at the Department of State, Aug. 16, 2018. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Data published by Guyana’s elections commission shows that President David Granger lost to opposition candidate Irfaan Ali in a recount of votes of March’s disputed vote. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Organization of American States (OAS) is calling on Guyana’s
Credit: caribbeannationalweekly.com/ (Left) Guyana incumbent President David Granger, A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), and main opposition candidate Irfaan Ali, People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Guyana’s election results are being held hostage to the world’s
Credit: U.S. Department of The Treasury / U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Tuesday designated four companies for operating in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy.
Wikipedia Commons / Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos, called for her assets to be unfrozen, and accused the Angolan
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Rosneft Trading S.A., a Swiss-incorporated, Russian-owned oil brokerage firm. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Trump administration continued to tighten the economic noose around Venezuela, slapping sanctions on a subsidiary of Russian oil firm Rosneft it said is