One of the most pressing concerns in our modern time is climate change. This past year has shown the disastrous and potentially catastrophic effects of global warming throughout our planet, including polar icecap melting and coastal flooding. Carbon sink also known as carbon sequestration is in jeopardy because of non-sustainable deforestation. More important is the…
I have been traveling around the country conducting a tracking poll on election-related matters, including on peoples’ trust in GECOM and its Chair, as well as on political figures. I also have been querying voters on popular media personalities and readership of newspapers and columns as well as their interest in news reports and commentaries….
Would it not be refreshing to see the following as a press release from APNU or the coalition government in relation to the recently published report by Global Witness? “…. APNU press release in relation to the recently published Global Witness report on Guyana. Guyana is starting its oil & gas industry from scratch, and…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 84 – February 4, 2020 This Column regards the Bridging Deed conceived by some artful legal mind as going to the heart of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement – one of the first major economic acts of the Granger Administration. The handmaiden for the…
It may seem to Guyanese that oil issues are coming to a head, that is, to some conclusion. They are not. We have to be prepared for a long and tough slog on our journey to get a fair deal for the working people of Guyana, and to finally start transforming the governance apparatus of…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 83 – January 31, 2020 This Column has finally been able to put its hands on the Bridging Deed referred to in Article 30 of the Petroleum Agreement signed by the APNU+AFC Government and Esso, Hess and CNOOC/Nexen. The Deed, is frightening in…
A day or two ago Mr Carl Greenidge dedicated about 14 minutes of his speech at the APNU campaign in Berbice to criticising an accomplished international anti-corruption NGO called Global Witness, and myself, Jan Mangal, a former adviser to President Granger on oil & gas. In my role as adviser to President Granger on oil…
By some estimates, for the Liza Phase 1 and Liza Phase 2 projects alone, the permanent tax holiday for the biggest oil company in the US could cost Guyanese taxpayers some US$5 billion. That could instead be spent on salaries for teachers and schools, nurses and hospitals, actually reliable water and electricity plants, and better…
