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Which of the 24 Santiago Principles is matched by which numbered Article in the Natural Resource Fund Act 2021?
Jay Mobeen asserts that ‘babbling Glen Lall and others who agitated against the NRF … were disingenuous. For weeks they peddled misinformation to a nation, woefully ignorant of the bill. This couldn’t have been more glaring than the massive sign held up outside the Assembly by opposition protestors. This sign demanded the inclusion of the…
The time has come for the current political leaders to adopt a new political culture
As a Guyanese of the diaspora living in Switzerland and Germany, I have been following Guyanese politics closely for the last few years. What has struck me most is the uncompromising nature of politics in my mother’s homeland. There is the absence of a political culture of seeking solutions to the nation’s key problems by…
A real makeover of the PNC must include an appeal to Indians and renegotiating the oil contract
The argument has been advanced that the reason PNC rigged all elections (1968 – 1985) goes like this: Why not? If PNC didn’t rig, then PPP with its Indian numerical majority base would win all elections – and they (PNC) would be kept out of power forever. Sounds like good logic in an environment where…
President Ali has to empower the 22 civic representatives, not get rid of them
President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali said, “The people of this country went to a poll, and they have placed their confidence in a president, in a government. Are you saying that after the people have placed that confidence that we don’t have the right or we can’t be trusted to name people on a board?” https://dpi.gov.gy/everything-in-sovereign-wealth-fund-will-have-parliamentary-oversight-president-ali/
Gov’t seems to be in a rush to approve Yellowtail though serious questions unsettled
On the weekend the government released an article stating that the Stabroek Oil Block is not up for renegotiation. It cited a number of reasons for its position including the sanctity of contract, the stability clause and because Exxon lost US$22 billion last year. The article reads like a marketing campaign for why Guyana should…
Oil exploration and production offshore Guyana: The Impact of Extractivism – Ecocide, Climate Crisis and Human Rights Abuses in the Caribbean
https://www.oggn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Janette-Bulkan-Impact-Extractivism-Webinar-20211130.mp4 The above presentation was part of the Freedom Imaginaries webinar please see here: https://freedomimaginaries.org/event/beyond-extractivism-webinar2/ .
5 years post-first oil, Guyanese have not seen any major benefits
Its Thanksgiving weekend in America, which kicks off the Christmas holiday season in the US. The US President is giving his citizens an early Christmas present by releasing oil from the US Strategic reserve to curtail the rise in gasoline prices and heating bills. US citizens can celebrate low unemployment levels and an economy that…
It is imperative the calculations behind the AFHP electrical energy per kWh be shown
The Government recently paid for full-colour, double-page spreads in the daily newspapers touting the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) for powering Guyana’s future. The topmost justification is the Norconsult 2016 report on AFHP, which states, “The only realistic path for Guyana toward an emission free electricity sector is by developing its hydropower potential. The fastest…