December 13, 2022

We Guyanese have been selling our natural assets to foreigners for five hundred years or more, from red annatto for dyeing cloth, now to oil for powering vehicles.  On 01 December 2022, the government announced a new version of a scheme for monetizing our forests – ‘jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits’.  This idea has been tried…

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Lenox Shuman, listed some of the functions of the National Toshaos Council that are set out in the Amerindian Act 2006. He then writes, ‘the NTC, by the stroke of a pen and the endorsement by the entire NTC at the last conference, has endorsed one of the…