Dr Tarron Khemraj talks about the political aspects of the resource curse Dr Jan Mangal discusses the potential value of renegotiation Chris Ram discusses the flaws in the oil contracts You can find the other presentations at this event below:
Due to my continued work highlighting grand thefts and forfeitures of billions of US dollars by our politicians past and present, of the oil wealth which belongs to the people of Guyana and which does not belong to the politicians and companies, there have been and will continue to be attempts to discredit my message…
The presentation slides can be found here: http://www.oggn.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/chris_ram_oggn_event_20190601.pdf
In our last article we presented facts that suggested that the claimed need for Exxon as insurance against Venezuelan hostility to justify the breach of the 60-block maximum per contract was an overstatement to use the most polite word. Today we discuss alternatives to that action taken by the then minister and supported and maintained…
We continue our analysis of the arrangement with Exxon by looking at the claim that the Venezuelan belligerence was the justification for the selection of Esso/Exxon and that this belligerence constituted special circumstances under Section 13(3) of the Regulations made pursuant to the 1986 Petroleum act. Both governments since the signing of these contracts have…
Today we want to examine the validity of the exercise by the minister of the discretion provided by regulation 13(3). Our research shows that no other country in the world has seen it fit to do what our minister did in 1999. The minister at the time used her discretion to exceed the maximum stated,…
Following several newspaper articles on the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA)’s probe into the award of oil blocks, Mid-Atlantic Oil and Gas Inc. and JHI Associates, two industry unknowns, have been publishing almost daily, advertisements to defend the exploration licence which they were handed by former President Donald Ramotar for the Canje Block. While they…
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh E. Jackson penned a letter on 06-Jun-2019 in SN where he stated that Jan Mangal (author of this letter) made unwarranted assumptions and arrived at foregone conclusions. He seems to have forgotten to include the list of unwarranted assumptions and foregone conclusions. Let’s hope he provides these in a…
