Janette Bulkan
Volume of daily discharged hot produced water from Guyana’s first two FPSOs into the ocean may exceed five Marriott sized hotels
Dear Editor, The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) here amplifies Ms Danuta Radzik’s letter in Stabroek News on 30 May ‘Reported 77% reduction in fish exports and reduction on catches can be attributed to the tonnes of toxic waste discharged into the ocean’. We take up numbered paragraph 8 in Ms Radzik’s letter, on…
Tara Singh’s claim on the halving of poverty in Guyana is not supported by the economic data available to the public
The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) is following up on its letter on the apparently bogus claims about the creation of 50,000-60,000 new jobs with a query about Tara Singh’s claim on the halving of poverty in Guyana (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2025/06/08/opinion/letters/we-cannot-account-for-ppp-c-claims-of-employment-increases-of-50000-or-60000-new-jobs-over-2020-2024-period/) . Tara Singh made the claim about poverty reduction in his letter published by Stabroek…
We cannot account for PPP/C claims of employment increases of 50,000 or 60,000 new jobs over 2020-2024 period
In October 2023, Vice President Jagdeo claimed that the PPP had fulfilled a PPP Manifesto promise by creating 50,000 jobs [https://newsroom.gy/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pdfresizer.com-pdf-resize.pdf ], in just over 3 years since returning to power, but without providing any evidence for his claim (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/10/12/news/guyana/govt-has-fulfilled-promise-by-creating-50000-jobs-jagdeo/ ). In May 2025, Tara Singh claimed the Government added more than 60,000 jobs between 2020 and…
Use comprehensive Environmental Protection Act instead of highly defective Oil Spill Bill
The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) supports the broad spread of objections to the highly defective Oil Pollution Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Responsibility Bill, passed narrowly by the National Assembly of Guyana on 16 May 2025, but not yet given Presidential assent. This broad spread includes at least the following protests published in the daily…
President Jagan was opposed to the philosophical mentality linked with handouts which I do not recall ever being repudiated by Vice-President Jagdeo
In a recent letter, Ramesh Gampat explained in plain English why it is a ‘fantasy’ to say that Guyanese are rich because of oil. After removing oil from economic calculations, Dr. Gampat showed that ‘Of the 33 countries in the Americas for which data are available, there were 17 countries with per capita income larger…
These wild presidential and DPI exaggerations, minus verifiable sources, ought to seriously be fact-checked by Stabroek News
Does His Excellency the President Mohamed Irfaan Ali live in an alternative universe? ‘We now have 18,000 Guyanese working on the offshore oil rig.’ See the DPI notice from October 14, 2024; https://dpi.gov.gy/local-content-raked-in-over-us2-billion-in-businesses-to-date-president-ali/ . There are 3 functioning FPSOs, each with a working crew of 150-160 according to the EIAs, of whom fewer than half will be…
Public investment in brackish water shrimpers versus coastal artisanal fishers
Since few government officials respond to questions that are raised in the Press, we must thank Tejnarine Geer, Aquaculture consultant, for information on the brackish water shrimp project in Region 6 (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/06/07/opinion/letters/brackish-water-shrimp-project-has-proven-to-be-tremendous-success/). Through your newspaper, I ask Mr Geer some follow-up questions: In 2021, Minister Mustapha informed that ‘$58M [was] being injected to up Region Six…
Unthinking paternalism displayed by the current government towards Guyana’s diverse Amerindian Villages and Communities
Dear Editor, Your editorial ‘Govt and the Indigenous’ (SN 02 June 2024, https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/06/02/opinion/editorial/govt-and-the-indigenous/) touches on the remarkably unthinking paternalism displayed by the current government towards Guyana’s diverse 200+ Amerindian Villages and Communities. What genuinely caring government would buy a job lot of 200 identical agricultural tractors and attachments and hand them out without considering the range…
Guyana has the legal means to deal with law-breaking ExxonMobil Guyana Limited
Kaieteur News on 13 April reported, ‘ExxonMobil, EPA a no-show again at Natural Resources Parliamentary meeting’ (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2024/04/13/exxonmobil-epa-a-no-show-again-at-natural-resources-parliamentary-meeting/). Through your pages, I call on our elected parliamentarians and staff of the National Assembly to use the legal procedures to require both ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) and the EPA to obey the law of the land. Standing…