October 18, 2024

These wild presidential and DPI exaggerations, minus verifiable sources, ought to seriously be fact-checked by Stabroek News

News EditorOctober 18, 2024October 18, 202402 mins

Does His Excellency the President Mohamed Irfaan Ali live in an alternative universe? ‘We now have 18,000 Guyanese working on the offshore oil rig.’ See the DPI notice from October 14, 2024; https://dpi.gov.gy/local-content-raked-in-over-us2-billion-in-businesses-to-date-president-ali/ . There are 3 functioning FPSOs, each with a working crew of 150-160 according to the EIAs, of whom fewer than half will be…

Exxon and Partners – Relinquishment Time

News EditorOctober 18, 2024October 18, 2024011 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 140 President Irfaan Ali enjoys his encounters with international journalists, including BBC’s Steve Sackur and more recently New York Times’ International Climate Correspondent, Somini Sengupta. While the President has ably navigated the questions posed to him, he has benefitted from some important questions…

Managing both bird and bush and other natural resources

News EditorOctober 18, 202401 mins

Recently, Ambassador Samuel Hinds reminded Guyanese of the notion that ‘A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush’. I contend that this statement is only true when one does not have ownership of both the bird and the bush; and therefore, one has to manage both bird and bush and other…

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Dominic Gaskin has joined with the consortium against Guyana

Is Exxon implying that its engineering skills permits its deep-water oil extraction at speeds in excess of the safe working limits?

DPI did not issue a correction of the erroneous mention of 18,000 Guyanese on oil rigs

Survey shows overwhelming support for renegotiation of Petroleum Agreement

The inequitable results that are currently observed in Guyana’s oil business is a function of the cost methodology imposed in the PSA

These wild presidential and DPI exaggerations, minus verifiable sources, ought to seriously be fact-checked by Stabroek News

Exxon and Partners – Relinquishment Time

Managing both bird and bush and other natural resources