January 1, 2024

Guyana vs. Venezuela and the Monroe Doctrine

Do US interests still prevail in Essequibo two hundred years after the Monroe Doctrine?

News EditorJanuary 1, 2024January 3, 2024021 mins

Janette Bulkan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia This column reflects on the Joint Declaration of Argyle against the geopolitical backdrop in which Guyana and Venezuela are enmeshed. One can contrast the Guyana government’s declarations of sovereignty against the tangible exercise of power and influence before and after May 2015, when…

The NRF tax violation calls into question sanctity of the Stabroek Block Contract

News EditorJanuary 1, 2024January 8, 202408 mins

A few years ago, oil companies would bombard the Guyanese people with “frontier country” to justify an embarrassing Stabroek Block contract that is currently paying us a paltry 14.5% or less of total oil revenues. The oil companies seem to have retreated from marketing us the “frontier country” tune after pushback from those in the…

Insurance and its adequacy (Part 1)

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No other current issue of greater import I can think of other than Jagdeo’s attack on the country’s judiciary and the troubling silence emanating since

Do US interests still prevail in Essequibo two hundred years after the Monroe Doctrine?

The NRF tax violation calls into question sanctity of the Stabroek Block Contract