June 10, 2025
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We cannot account for PPP/C claims of employment increases of 50,000 or 60,000 new jobs over 2020-2024 period

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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…

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The oil spill Bill pathway through the Attorney General represents both an abuse of the Legislative and nullification of the Judicial branches of government

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President Ali disappointedly betrayed the nation with his assent to the Oil Pollution Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Responsibility Bill (the Bill), ignoring the numerous troubling concerns and forebodings brought to his attention by eminent Guyanese, Caribbean and other international experts including a scathing rebuke by the Commonwealth Lawyers Association citing the Government for breaches of…

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Use comprehensive Environmental Protection Act instead of highly defective Oil Spill Bill

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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…

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Ready to debate Nandlall

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Attorney General (AG) Nandlall keeps getting away with a free pass hiding behind: (a) the soliloquy of his weekly programme where he amusingly argues with himself; and (b) the obliging interviews by his fawning PPP/C interviewers, without having anyone to challenge and expose in real time, his ignorance and propaganda. Unfortunately for the AG, he…

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Oil pollution prevention bill is naked attempt to cancel Justice Kissoon’s decision

News Editor024 mins

The Oil Pollution Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Responsibility Bill 2025 (the Bill) is nothing but an all-time brazen scam perpetrated by the PPP/C to cancel Judge Kissoon’s decision, and bears out a bold-faced election time deception by the PPP/C that they will include unlimited liability coverage in the Bill after waging a 5-year rabid war…

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PPP/C Government retreats and tables its own rejected Oil Pollution Prevention Preparedness Response and Responsibility Bill

News Editor010 mins

Hopefully, all of Guyana have recovered from the shock of the bombshell pre-election revelation that the Government has retreated from their rabidly fought 5-year battle against unlimited liability protection to cover an oil spill. During their respective media programmes of last week, both Vice President Jagdeo and Attorney General (AG) Nandlall, announced tabling of the…

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President Ali must act without delay on these pressing oil and gas matters

News Editor010 mins

Over the past seven weeks, the Sunday Stabroek has published a series of letters by the Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) Guyana highlighting the lopsided nature of the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd, along with its affiliates Hess Corporation and CNOOC. As previously reported by…

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