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…
Dear Editor, If the Attorney-General (A-G) said in the ongoing case that it is in the best interests of the State to go ahead with the Gas-to-Energy project (GtE) then he is getting into the realm of speculation and asking the judge and the public to trust him. Against all the norms of decent democracy,…
Dear Editor, In recent letters to the press, Robin Singh, a person who is yet to apologise for publicly labelling me and some members of civil society treasonous, is peddling more illogic. He seems to have now awakened to the concept of ‘unlimited’, as in parent company guarantee (PCG). It was already there to be…
I see Vice-President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has thrown out a challenge for a company to produce solar power for the grid at 5 US cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). He will win. He is correct that large-scale batteries are not available to Guyana. Only countries like India and China who have the technology, raw materials,…
S.11 (5) of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Act declares that every environmental impact assessment shall contain the following information: – (b) an outline of the main alternatives studied by the developer and an indication of the main reasons for his choice, taking into account the environmental factors. One therefore expects to find studies of the alternatives…
I did not intend to write this letter, but the emails I sent to where the government and parliamentary websites said to contact them were unsuccessful. I wrote that I should like The Radiation Safety and Security Bill 2022 to be redrafted to incorporate certain considerations, which I am listing for public consultation, which service…
