Janette Bulkan

Dear Editor, In follow-up to the letter by Immaculata Casimero about mercury in women at Parabara in South Rupununi (2026, July 5. Oil wealth should not come at cost of indigenous women’s health. Kiskadee Watch.https://kiskadeewatch.com/opinion/letters/oil-wealth-should-not-come-at-cost-of-indigenous-womens-health/), the medical report on Chinese Landing from August 2023 should be remembered.  During the government’s ‘fact-finding’ mission to Chinese Landing, blood and…

Dear Editor, During his more than six years as PPP Minister for Housing and Water, January 2009 – May 2015, Mohd. Irfaan Ali was also acquiring/developing a large mixed farm near St Cuthbert’s Amerindian Village, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.  Aerial images show that this farm is in the Intermediate Savannas, with a shallow infertile soil…

Dear Editor, President Mohd. Irfaan Ali has been sharply critical of foreign companies wanting to sell into Guyana but not invest in this country; see for example https://kaieteurnewsonline.com/2026/06/22/no-investment-no-access-to-guyanas-market-pres-ali-tells-foreign-investors/.  Perhaps the President would have a better understanding of investor reticence if he endured the chaotic failure of the Ministry of Public Works and the Guyana Police Force…

Dear Editor, Recent public reports concerning the alleged mistreatment of a student at the David Rose Special Education Needs School have rightly disturbed the conscience of the nation. We note that the Ministry of Education has reportedly completed its investigation and forwarded the file to the Teaching Service Commission, including reports, statements, findings and formal…

On 19 March, Kaieteur News carried a Department for Public Information report that Guyana has again sold jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits (https://kaieteurnewsonline.com/2026/03/19/guyana-sold-carbon-credits-to-19-airlines-under-lcds-framework/). No price has been reported, nor any transactional costs which must be carried by Guyana for the entity, which makes the estimate of how many carbon credits are available for what period, or for an independent…

ExxonMobil has concentrated on its ‘golden lane’ of wells drilled in the southeastern part of the huge Stabroek Tract (Block) concession, now of 2.68 million hectares.  Exxon has also had a brief look at deeper concessions (Kaieteur Tract) and shallower areas (Canje Tract, formerly part of the original Stabroek Tract of 600 graticular blocks in…

My letter is directed at the BBC World Questions programme. If I understand correctly, the visit has been induced by the BBC noting that Guyana’s GDP per person is now high because of the export value of ExxonMobil’s offshore deep-water oil, a resource in excess of 11.6 billion barrels of oil and 13-16 trillion standard…

Income from new shallow-water blocks offshore Guyana versus Gulf of Mexico Minister Vickram Bharrat was pleased to remind the National Assembly during the second day of the Budget 2026 debates that Guyana had gained USD 22 million from ‘two recently signed petroleum agreements’ (https://dpi.gov.gy/ppp-cs-transparent-oil-management-sets-guyana-apart-from-coalitions-secretive-record-min-bharrat/).  It was not clear from where the Minister found his USD…