President Ali frequently parrots the “sanctity of contract” in discussions of the Stabroek Block Petroleum Agreement (PSA) to convey that Guyana cannot change the contract. Yet the agreement was amended on April 26, 2019, by President Granger, to ensure that the 2% royalty could not be treated as a recoverable cost (see Stabroek News). Thus,…
Dear Editor, It is the season of congratulations for high achievers of CXC, but I am teaching some remedialclasses in mathematics and I began by asking the students what they did not understand from the past(Form 1) year of high school and would like to relearn. Among the things high on their priority was profitand…
I am an energy technologist who has conducted energy audits and surveys. The term ‘energy balance’ used to be reserved for applications of the 1st law of thermodynamics (also known as the law of conservation of energy). I succeed as an energy auditor when I reconcile the amount of energy supplied with the amount of energy used…
The Kaieteur News editorial of Saturday April 11 on the Aurora Gold Mines (AGM)[i] solar farm displays current evidence of my advocacy of solar power instead of the expensive Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project, which enriches foreign investors and contractors. 12 years ago, I set up a small home solar power system, which still supplies…
Dear Editor, The lead letter of Oct 23 in SN (To shelve this US$2B GTE cornerstone strategic project is misguided, its abandonment will not solve Guyana’s energy insecurity) is so blinkered that I feel compelled to remind readers of circumstances that are being ignored. 1 The land that has been and now again being firmed…
Now that the President has assented to the Oil Spill Bill against all sound advice, including that of the Oil & Gas Governance Network (OGGN), we must not succumb to the consequences without asking for the surety, which I rate as the unspoken defence the Government thinks they have if they are taken to court….
Let’s face facts. Might is ultimately right in our world. Sure, we have progressed to behaving more civilly with each other when the stakes are relatively low. However, there are no holds barred when the stakes are high. The new administration in the USA seems to get to the greedy point with fewer…
Knowledge is what we want. Schools are successful when they eventually show students how to acquire knowledge themselves. Knowledge is not merely information, though it is made up of information. It is not my intention to write a treatise on the processing and logics of turning information into knowledge by means of intelligence, but to…
GPL, there are still people around who can understand electricity I grew up in New Amsterdam in the 1950s, where there were hundreds of vultures, which we called carrion crows. Some used to come home to roost in coconut trees between where I lived and the then NA hospital. They also perched on electric power…
Dear Editor, I am an admirer of Justice Sandil Kissoon’s sagacity. However, I believe the judge made a mistake this time. If the status quo must be maintained, then it should return to work for pay. Let the rights and wrongs be examined in court while the teachers return to their students. If this is…
