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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…

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…

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #36: Guyana’s Blackouts: Why do our oil riches fail to keep the lights on?

News EditorOctober 17, 2024December 4, 202401 mins

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…

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #35:: Reclaiming Guyana’s Oil Wealth : Would The PNCR 20- point plan for Oil & Gas deliver?

News EditorOctober 3, 2024October 4, 202401 mins

PLUGGING OIL AND GAS FOREX LEAKS

News EditorSeptember 29, 202419 mins

WHEN oil companies sell the oil and gas that they extract from Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), over 80% of the revenue is paid to third-party contractors for goods and services. These contractors are often international companies that get paid in foreign currency which they take out of T&T. Many of these foreign companies pay little…

The PNC-R’s 20-Point Plan for Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector

News EditorSeptember 28, 2024September 28, 202409 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 138 – September 28, 2024 After years of dithering and delays, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC-R) recently unveiled a 20-point plan – more a statement of intent – for managing Guyana’s fast-moving oil and gas sector. This plan, coming eight years after…

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…

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #34:: Rebalancing A Lopsided Agreement: Are Guyanese Benefiting from Employment in Oil & Gas Sector

News EditorSeptember 26, 2024October 1, 202401 mins

Canadian Sanctity of Contract case offers hope for Guyana: Part 2

EPA caught in blatant untruthfulness on Exxon’s Parent Company Guarantee

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Part 1: Canadian Sanctity of Contract case offers hope for Guyana

ExxonMobil’s noncompliance with Guyana’s Sovereign Tax laws should be of concern to all especially the US Internal Revenue Service

ExxonMobil does not adhere to the highest ethical standards

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

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #36: Guyana’s Blackouts: Why do our oil riches fail to keep the lights on?

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

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #35:: Reclaiming Guyana’s Oil Wealth : Would The PNCR 20- point plan for Oil & Gas deliver?

PLUGGING OIL AND GAS FOREX LEAKS

The PNC-R’s 20-Point Plan for Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector

International Day for Universal Access to Information

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #34:: Rebalancing A Lopsided Agreement: Are Guyanese Benefiting from Employment in Oil & Gas Sector