Gov’t enacts regulations to delimit baselines for main rivers

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday announced that the government has enacted regulations to close the lines across the mouths of the three largest navigable rivers of Guyana, the Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice rivers.

Greenidge told the National Assembly that the government enacted the Maritime Zones (Internal Waters and River Closing Baselines) Regulations on July 23rd, in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Maritime Zones