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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
  • Most disturbingly, the government refuses to disclose who issues tax certificates to the oil companies
  • Book Launch: “Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood: Probing Promises and Potential Peril”
  • Use non-oil GDP as the true indicator of the economy
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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

    June 8, 2025June 8, 2025
  • Most disturbingly, the government refuses to disclose who issues tax certificates to the oil companies

    June 8, 2025
  • Book Launch: “Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood: Probing Promises and Potential Peril”

    June 7, 2025June 7, 2025
  • Use non-oil GDP as the true indicator of the economy

    June 6, 2025June 8, 2025
  • Exxon’s 2024 Financial Statements

    June 6, 2025June 8, 2025
  • The oil spill Bill pathway through the Attorney General represents both an abuse of the Legislative and nullification of the Judicial branches of government

    June 5, 2025June 8, 2025
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It’s the same players back at the helm

News EditorAugust 9, 2021August 9, 202102 mins

‘One do not make changes to a winning team’ says the old adage. But something is wrong with Guyana in terms of development. The Gas to Shore project comprises some of the same players who were involved in a string of questionable projects. We can identify the Marriot Hotel, a venture where expenditures are yet…

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  • Leyland Roopnaraine

This oil contract is a giveaway of Guyana’s precious resources

News EditorJanuary 1, 2020January 1, 202004 mins

Almost two years after the government signed the oil contract with ExxonMobil, it was made public, but only after months of constant pressure from this newspaper and other media outlets. From all indications, it was a poorly negotiated contract with a meagre two percent royalty, which is considered the worst of all negotiated oil contracts…

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