Timeline of the rescue effort for the MV Barima ferry sinking?
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are…
Timeline of the rescue effort for the MV Barima ferry sinking?
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Could the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MSRC) publish the timeline for the rescue effort for the sinking MV Barima ferry? This MSRC Centre is coordinated through MARAD and the…
‘One Guyana’ put to the test as Parliament yet to meet on MV Barima tragedy
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana and devastates it. … It would be an assault on the grief of those who try to cope with their loss for the…
The Resource Curse Begins on a Farm (Part 2)
The Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must become Oil-minded Column 194 – The Resource Curse Begins on a Farm (Part 2) In Column 193, I argued that the controversy surrounding President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek is not fundamentally about agriculture. It is about governance in an oil-producing state. It…
Questions about the rescue efforts for MV Barima
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Guyana acceded to the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) on 10 December 1997, and SOLAS became effective in Guyana on 10 March 1998. So presumably…
Why were the Bell rescue helicopters not launched immediately from Ogle?
Dear Editor, Omni Helicopters Guyana Inc. is a partnership with Roraima Airways owned by the Gouveia family, https://www.facebook.com/OHGInc/. Omni mainly services the offshore deep-water oilfield operations of Exxon Mobil Guyana Ltd. (EMGL) and has a fleet of six aircraft at Ogle, 20 minutes flying time from Iron Punt where the MV Barima ferry was sinking…
The Resource Curse has arrived – on a Farm Part I
Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-minded. Column No. 193 July 12, 2026 The Resource Curse has arrived – on a Farm Part I The story of the month, and perhaps of the year, has been President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek, an area off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Readers…
GWI’s statement is irresponsible, callous and dangerous – water 630 times safe limit
Upon reading the July 5, 2026 edition of THE 592 GUARDIAN summarizing the Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) 2025 findings on drinking water quality in Regions 4, 7 and 10, I was embarrassed and astounded by the Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) statement reported in the July 3, 2026 Kaieteur News article that “Water quality issues flagged…
Government response to high levels of mercury in Amerindian communities?
Dear Editor, In follow-up to the letter in KN by Immaculata Casimero about high levels of mercury in women at Parabara in South Rupununi ‘our oil wealth should not come at the cost of Indigenous women’s health’, 6th July, 2026; the medical report on Chinese Landing from August 2023 should be remembered. During the government’s ‘fact-finding’ mission to…
What interventions have been made by gov’t in Chinese Landing over high mercury levels?
Dear Editor, In follow-up to the letter by Immaculata Casimero about mercury in women at Parabara in South Rupununi (2026, July 5. Oil wealth should not come at cost of indigenous women’s health. Kiskadee Watch.https://kiskadeewatch.com/opinion/letters/oil-wealth-should-not-come-at-cost-of-indigenous-womens-health/), the medical report on Chinese Landing from August 2023 should be remembered. During the government’s ‘fact-finding’ mission to Chinese Landing, blood and…
Mr President publish the capital and operating costs of your farm
Dear Editor, During his more than six years as PPP Minister for Housing and Water, January 2009 – May 2015, Mohd. Irfaan Ali was also acquiring/developing a large mixed farm near St Cuthbert’s Amerindian Village, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Aerial images show that this farm is in the Intermediate Savannas, with a shallow infertile soil…
