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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…

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…

This comment is highly disturbing and warrants a withdrawal from Ambassador Hinds

News EditorOctober 4, 2024October 16, 202402 mins

I refer to a letter captioned, ‘Let’s feel good about what we are getting from our oil’ written by His Excellency Samuel Hinds, Ambassador, Former Prime Minister, and Former Acting Preisident of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. In that letter, it is stated… ‘If we have troubles absorbing the US $4.4 billion according to some…

International Day for Universal Access to Information

News EditorSeptember 28, 2024October 4, 2024012 mins

Knowledge is what we want. Schools are successful when they eventually show students how to acquire knowledge themselves. Knowledge is not merely information, though it is made up of information. It is not my intention to write a treatise on the processing and logics of turning information into knowledge by means of intelligence, but to…

Guyana – Outlining a Path to Economic Development

News EditorSeptember 22, 202401 mins

Political Pressure and Central Bank Monetization: “Dutch Disease” and Monetary Developments in Ghana & Guyana

News EditorSeptember 21, 202401 mins

Guyana Oil Share: 1.29 Barrels of oil out of every 100 Barrels

News EditorSeptember 20, 2024September 21, 202406 mins

It has been reported that Guyana received $336 billion in 2023 from oil, and had to pay $306 billion in taxes for Exxon Mobil and partners (KN: Sept. 13, 2024). The implication which can be drawn from this distribution of total revenue is that Guyana only received G$30 billion ($336 B – $306 B) from…

The Consumer Price Index used by both Bureau of Statistics and Bank of Guyana for 2023 are inconsistent with the financial system data

News EditorSeptember 11, 202404 mins

Dr. Ramesh Gampat SN letter September 8, 2024 questioned the ‘credibility of inflation data’ by the Bureau of Statistics namely, the annual inflation rate for 2023. The number used lies somewhere between 1.6 percent and 2 percent. These numbers are inconsistent with financial system data. Guyana’s Consumer Price Index for January 2023 was 130.7%, ending…

Why construct a waste treatment plant in close proximity to a populated centre?

News EditorSeptember 6, 202402 mins

Two main roads EBD and ECD. Villages formed alongside these roads. The location of this Waste Treatment Plant is at Coverden – a village alongside EBD. Couldn’t this plant have been sited a few miles inland, away from one of these villages? Penelope Howell wrote this: “While standing in front of PWSI, I felt a…

Bharrat’s disinformation on oil production rates is unprincipled and dangerous

News EditorAugust 20, 2024011 mins

I read without surprise, the August 10, 2024 KN clip “MP Vickram Bharrat provided misleading, deceptive information to Parliament on rate of oil production – David Patterson”. We all know that “misleading and deceptive” are parliamentary jargons for “lies”; but, in all fairness, let’s also charitably attribute some of the Honorable Minister’s mouthings to ignorance….

Civil Society: Access to Information Protest — Report # 1

The Tax Certificate mystery

Spell out a transparent oil Treaty for USA protection from Venezuela

Questions for AG on conflict between 2016 PSA and NRF Act (2021) on tax payments on behalf of oil companies

Teixeira failed to address some core issues such as free access to information raised in OGGN’s letter

The Ministry of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs has it all wrong

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

Managing both bird and bush and other natural resources

This comment is highly disturbing and warrants a withdrawal from Ambassador Hinds

International Day for Universal Access to Information

Guyana – Outlining a Path to Economic Development

Political Pressure and Central Bank Monetization: “Dutch Disease” and Monetary Developments in Ghana & Guyana

Guyana Oil Share: 1.29 Barrels of oil out of every 100 Barrels

The Consumer Price Index used by both Bureau of Statistics and Bank of Guyana for 2023 are inconsistent with the financial system data

Why construct a waste treatment plant in close proximity to a populated centre?

Bharrat’s disinformation on oil production rates is unprincipled and dangerous