Today’s front page story in SN showing Minister Bharrat handing over production license for a fourth oil well to Exxon’s Guyana president Alistair Routledge, giving up yet more leverages to demand renegotiation – should give cause for alarm to the Guyanese people. It is simply giving Exxon license to cheat the Guyanese people of Fair…
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We learn from the Department of Public Information that in the 2022 national budget $1.4 billion of public funds were allocated to deal with the stench and other management issues at the Haags Bosch landfill located at Eccles. Further, that more than 450 tonnes of waste per day are dumped in ‘Cell one’ and ‘currently,…
I am compelled to write again, about this most crucial matter of full coverage insurance, so as to keep it fresh in the minds of our people; for the modus operandi of the Government and Exxon is to no doubt, wait it out and it will soon be the news of yesterday. The issue of…
The Report produced for USAID on Democracy, human rights and governance assessment: Guyana (2021) makes the following observation in several places: ‘The constitution mandates a high degree of cabinet involvement in executive decision-making while the National Assembly serves as check on the executive branch. Consequentially, the executive branch of government is both protected and isolated…
Motion – Liability Insurance Coverage for Spills Whereas Oil production offshore Guyana is expected to increase rapidly from its current rate of 120,000 barrels per day (bopd) to close to 1 million bopd, with the number of FPSOs increasing over 10 times by 2026; And Whereas worldwide offshore oil production operations show a high likelihood…
In follow-up to your editorial ‘Critics’ in the Sunday Stabroek for March 06, 2022, I suggest that the leadership of the PPP/C should re-read its 2020 election manifesto, to remind itself that it still has some important promises to act upon. One of these is its commitment to re-negotiate the Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil:…
I watched with amusement, Exxon’s latest statement of March 2, 2022, and the frenzied utterings of our Honourable Vice President, even calling me a liar. I respect the office of the VP, so will not debase myself to the indignity of responding in kind, but will leave it to the people who know him better…
President Ali is a good man and our duly elected President, who can end up being a great leader. Our AG, a “maybe” future presidential candidate and the smartest man in Guyana, is a national hero, and defender of our democracy. Who can forget his role as a “Guardian of Democracy” during the five months…
The build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) financial arrangement has been used around the world to fund important infrastructure in partnership between government and private investors. In this financing model, the private investor upfronts the initial investment cost and expects to be repaid over some time period. The investor has an expected rate of return before underwriting the project….
