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…
The Bank of Guyana (BoG) half-year report (Jan to June 2025, page 81: https://tinyurl.com/bdd829ec) shows that Guyana received a total of US$1.08 Billion as payments for profit oil (US$ 907.94 Million) and Royalty (US$ 169.6 Million). In keeping with the 2016 PSA Contract, it is stipulated that Guyana must receive 2 percent of Total Revenue…
The audacity of the two-page government ad celebrating Caribbean Statistics Day 2025 in yesterday’s issue of Stabroek News (October 15, 2025) is simply stunning to any informed reader. The 2022 National Census was completed in the latter part of 2022. Yet, despite repeated promises by the PPP-led government, especially in the lead-up to the 2025…
On Monday, September 1, 2025, the people of Guyana will head to the polls in what may be the most consequential General and Regional Elections since independence in 1966. The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) is committed to safeguarding Guyana’s resources, strengthening democratic institutions, and ensuring that the blessings of our oil wealth truly…
Reference is made to Mr. Roger Ally’s recent letter, “Government/GMSA did a great job” (Stabroek News, August 8, 2025). He extensively cites from my letter of August 3, where I argued that small states should act through supranational organizations when facing powerful nations. Unfortunately, Mr. Ally omits a key fact while praising the Government’s achievement…
Early on Friday morning, August 1, 2025 – notably Switzerland’s National Day – there was a rude awakening for the Federal Council, Parliament, and the public. President Trump imposed a new punitive tariff of 39% on Swiss exports to the United States, citing allegedly massive export surpluses. For now, pharmaceutical products – which account for…
Reference is made to Genevieve Glatsky’s May 25 New York Times article entitled “Venezuela Plans Vote for Disputed Oil-Rich Territory”, which contains several critical inaccuracies. First, Essequibo is not “oil-rich.” All commercially viable oil discoveries lie offshore, in the eastern and southeastern parts of the Stabroek Block, east of the Essequibo River delta and well…
