Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 112 – November 3, 2023 Today’s column will complete the remaining chapters VI to X of Raphael Trotman’s book. Before I do so, let me acknowledge the articles carried in the Kaieteur News, written by Ms. Kiana Wilburg, their senior reporter in that…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 111 – October 27, 2023 Introduction Today’s column continues with a review of Chapters IV and V of Mr. Trotman’s book. In Chapter IV – Interactions with Exxon and the other Companies, Trotman relates his several meetings with representatives and officials of oil…
Dear Editor, The protection of the public from untruths, half-truths, misrepresentations, and distortions dictates that I make an exception to my unwillingness to engage in any place or in any capacity. As shown in the examples set out in this letter, multiple-part responses in the print and social media to repeated assertions about financial shenanigans…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 110 – October 20, 2023 Introduction Today’s column begins the review of Trotman’s book From Destiny to Prosperity – the names of two of the first three Floating Storage and Production Offshore vessels (FPSO) in the petroleum operations conducted by the Contractors in…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 109 – October 13, 2023 Introduction It has been several months since column 108. Yet, when I told a friend that I intended to publish approximately eight columns over the next few weeks, his immediate reaction was the question: what will you say…
Maya Angelou, American literary giant and civil rights activist once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time”. Unfortunately, when Esso showed us who they were from the first decade of this century, we not only did not believe them, but successive governments spinelessly conspired with them to deprive current…
It would be perfectly understandable if the public is totally confused over the issue of the audit of the expenses claimed by Esso, Hess and CNOOC for the period 1999 – 2017. Various reports in the media suggest that the UK entity contracted to audit the costs reported by the consortium were overstated by US$214…
…Jagdeo does not own the country’s resources Kaieteur News – President of local watchdog organization, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) Frederick Collins is calling on the Government of Guyana (GoG) to release the reports submitted by ExxonMobil, outlining the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on their operations. The quarterly reports were a prerequisite to the extension…
The drivel (for want of a euphemistic word) of the letter writer, Joel Bhagwandin, does not deserve a response because of lack of substantive information; but to allow it to be sustained in the public domain may give it credence. OGGN is a bona fide non-profit organization. Its members are impeccably clean – IT Specialist,…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 107 – March 31, 2023 Introduction Today I return to the matter of Esso’s new head office at Ogle, first addressed in Part 104 on 9th. March. The story of this mega building is rife with misrepresentation, secrecy, complicity, abuse of power, possible…
