French Guiana News

There is a promise from the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Steve Blackett, and French Ambassador to Barbados, Jacques Sturm , to explore new avenues for cooperation that would enhance the existing relationship.

All chief executives dream of taking their company into the stratosphere, but Avanti boss David Williams has gone much further than that.

Arianespace marked one of the final steps in preparations for the next Ariane 5 launch as Europe's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle was integrated atop the heavy-lift workhorse at the Spaceport.

The company signed a four-year deal to explore the Kanuku Block, an area approximately 6,525 kilometres that is about 100 miles off Guyana's coast.

Brazil's plans to build an electronic fence along its border with its 10 neighbors moved forward with what appears to be the final selection of local and foreign suppliers for the complex and costly network.

Saint International modelling agency CEO Deiwght Peters recently served as a guest judge at the beMode Miss Carabes Guyane pageant in French Guiana, ahead of StyleWeek Jamaica slated for May 22-26, 2013, which will see a group of officials from that country jetting in as special guests.

France's justice minister has said she supports land reform in the country's overseas territories to help the descendents of slaves, two days after President Hollande declared reparations for slavery were impossible.

The launch of Europe's lightweight rocket, Vega , planned for May 4 from Kourou in French Guiana, was put off on May 6 because of poor weather conditions at the space base, the European Space Agency said.

Some years back at the Aosta interstellar conference I had the pleasure of being on a bus making its way at night through the Italian alps with Pekka Janhunen sitting immediately in front of me.

The company said that continued strong production from the Jubilee field continues to underpin Tullow's financial performance which funds their high-impact exploration programme.

Image Caption: Vega lifted off at 02:06 GMT on 7 May 2013 on a complex mission requiring five upper-stage boosts.

After three days of delay due to the bad weather, Vietnam's first remote sensing satellite, VNRED Sat-1, was successfully launched Tuesday morning by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, local media reported.

The vehicle left the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 23:06 local time on Friday , placing three satellites in orbit.

THE mysterious discovery made on Trinidad's south coast on Saturday, may be debris from a rocket ship or satellite.

ERHC Energy Inc. , an independent oil and gas explorer in Africa, said it has signed a letter of intent to sell part of its interest in an exploration block in Kenya .

Launch of the second Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana was Saturday postponed due to bad weather, the European Space Agency announced.

In a May 1 story about racism in Italy, datelined Rome, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that a current French minister is from the French region of Guyana.

Vega will loft the Proba-V satellite , which will collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every couple of days.

There are approximately 800 different species of mammals in the Amazon Rainforest that have been classified.

Latvia's fist satellite "Venta-1" could be launched into orbit from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with the European Space Agency's latest carrier rocket "Vega", University of Bremen lecturer and OHB Technology AG scientist Indulis Kalnins informed LETA.... Read more...