Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has made a searing attack on a ruling by a High Court judge in the Teachers’ strike case in which the underlying issue is free collective bargaining. Despite not having read the judgment, Mr. Jagdeo yet felt comfortable using words like ‘appalling’ and ‘presumptuous’. However couched, this has to be seen…
Kaieteur News on 13 April reported, ‘ExxonMobil, EPA a no-show again at Natural Resources Parliamentary meeting’ (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2024/04/13/exxonmobil-epa-a-no-show-again-at-natural-resources-parliamentary-meeting/). Through your pages, I call on our elected parliamentarians and staff of the National Assembly to use the legal procedures to require both ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) and the EPA to obey the law of the land. Standing…
Kaieteur News – The Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall S.C last week issued a cautionary statement to Guyanese critical of the oil sector, as he claimed these were being used by the Venezuelan government to bolster its outrageous claims over Guyana’s sovereign territory. His remarks were met with widespread condemnation and continue to be disarmed by…
Your editorial ‘IACHR resolution’ on 30 July 2023 summarises the resolution about the dreadful long-running case of illegal mining at Chinese Landing. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had previously addressed the complaint about similar problems at Isseneru. The two documents are well worth reading for the careful histories of events, and summaries of the very dubious…
Vice President Jagdeo has for sure secured his spot in the annals of iconic harbingers of falsehoods; but his reaction to Honourable Judge Kissoon’s well-thought-out decision, takes the cake, when he distorts the decision and attempts to intimidate and create a chilling effect on the judiciary. The VP perversely attacks the decision with his vengeful…
Last week, reporting on the ruling of Justice Sandil Kissoon, who heard the case brought against EEPGL and the EPA by Frederick Collins and Godfrey Whyte, Stabroek News said, “ExxonMobil’s local affiliate, EEPGL, has agreed in the permit to provide insurance and an unlimited parent company indemnity to cover all environmental loss and damage that…
Introduction This is the case for renegotiation of the Petroleum Agreements between the Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil (“Guyana-Exxon agreements”). In my article dated 8 December 2017[1], I wrote extensively on the nature and types of stability clauses and their pros and cons. Most notably, what the Model Petroleum Contract describes as a Stability Clause…
