Hands down, the indomitable Mr. Glenn Lall would be my pick for Guyana’s “Man of the Year for 2020.”Mr. Lall and his Kaieteur News (KN) paper has single-handedly stood in the gap and swam against the tide of silence and apparent corruption that has enveloped the country with respect to oil. As a national, “people’s”…
On the subject of constraining production and implementing a depletion strategy, and the possibility of a reduction in oil prices due to changing global energy demand. I share elements of a previously published article which is still of relevance today. A friend made a comment after viewing an online interview with me in June 2019….
Local politicians are constantly professing that Guyana will receive millions of dollars in revenue from the oil sector for years to come. While it is true that the country stands to get “a little money” now and in the near future, massive debt waits on the horizon says international lawyer and transparency advocate, Melinda Janki.In…
On Tuesday December 1st, 2020, it was reported in the Kaieteur News that VP Jagdeo made the statement, “… We made it clear that when they come for a production sharing agreement for the Kaieteur Block, (it would not have the same loopholes as those which exist in the Stabroek agreement). It would be a very…
The World Bank, Guyana’s development partner of many years, is being challenged to prove that Guyana’s gas-to-shore project will not fall to the same fate as Ghana’s project. The African nation’s Sankofa field gas project, endorsed and partly financed by the Bank, has trapped Ghana in a deal which forces it to pay hundreds of…
International lawyer and transparency advocate, Melinda Janki is of the firm conviction that it is high time the government desists from selling the citizenry false dreams and hopes about the oil wealth. Instead, the attorney categorically states that it must inform the citizens of the truth, which is, that the Guyana-ExxonMobil deal is fraught with…
This letter includes my commentary to The Dialogue (https://www.thedialogue.org/energy-advisor/) on the current state of Guyana’s oil industry (published on 27-Nov-2020). The questions concerned oil production, impact of low oil prices, future oil development, and how the new PPP government is managing the industry. My response: “Only Liza 1 has reached production, yet ExxonMobil’s operations made…
International Lawyer, Melinda Janki believes that ExxonMobil’s relationship with Guyana amounts to an attempt at colonisationSpeaking to anti-colonialist Kingston University Professor, Andy Higginbottom, during an online forum, Janki said last month that “the main point of colonization is to take a country’s resources and to pay little or nothing. The colonizing entity co-opts the political…
The three major political parties – People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), and Alliance for Change (AFC) – are united in the sellout of Guyana’s oil and gas resources to oil giants and their beneficiaries.Many of their leaders are complicit and/or compromised. So says anti-corruption advocate, Nigel Hinds.In an exclusive Op-Ed…
