Thinking taxes, especially removing a part of Government tax base should be approached with caution as Christopher Ram alluded to in SN-2025-12-22. In a fast growing economy the tax base should also be growing, in order to cater to Government social safety net spending in an environment of rising prices that the poor faces. An…
The Minister for Natural Resources, like Christopher Columbus, has discovered that Guyana’s petroleum legislation allows for retrieval of information generated by the oil companies; see ‘Govt. demands immediate information on oil discoveries in new PSA’ and ‘Exxon must provide daily drill data, ROV images’, both in Kaieteur News (December 9, 2025). Minister Vickram Bharrat referenced…
For weeks, OGGN’s home page (www.oggn.org) has faced sustained attacks, WITH hundreds of intrusion attempts weekly from Amsterdam to São Paulo, Sydney to Izmir. These are not random. The hackers demonstrate familiarity with the site’s systems, user behaviour, and even aspects of administration. The volume and sophistication of these attempts to sabotage the site strongly…
