Opinion
Lack of ring-fencing cut Guyana’s 2025 profit-oil entitlement by US$4.9b
Dear Editor, As of 2026, there are now 4 deepwater oil operations in production, altogether sometimes pumping 930,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) a day, or US$2.4 billion in oil revenue per month, at today’s oil prices. There have been repeated calls for these projects to be ring-fenced. To quote Christopher Ram’s definition of Ring-Fencing,…
Why were the Bell rescue helicopters not launched immediately from Ogle?
Dear Editor, Omni Helicopters Guyana Inc. is a partnership with Roraima Airways owned by the Gouveia family, https://www.facebook.com/OHGInc/. Omni mainly services the offshore deep-water oilfield operations of Exxon Mobil Guyana Ltd. (EMGL) and has a fleet of six aircraft at Ogle, 20 minutes flying time from Iron Punt where the MV Barima ferry was sinking…
Another oil revenue anomaly
Dear Editor, As a follow-up to the recently published article, “There Is a US$6.7 Billion Difference Between the Oil Revenues Reported by the Bank of Guyana and Exxon”, there are also discrepancies within Guyana’s own official figures. Table VII of the Bank of Guyana’s 2025 Annual Report states that oil revenue for 2025 was approximately…
When all factors considered Guyana’s 2025 oil revenue was drop in the bucket
Dear Editor, The 2025 Combined Financial Report for the Guyana oil consortium (Exxon, Hess/Chevron, and CNOOC) show that total revenue is US$17.2 Billion; and the total profit is US$12.1 Billion. Given that profits are to be shared equally between the companies and Guyana, it is clear that Guyana and the companies should each receive US$6.05…
The Resource Curse has arrived – on a Farm Part I
Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-minded. Column No. 193 July 12, 2026 The Resource Curse has arrived – on a Farm Part I The story of the month, and perhaps of the year, has been President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek, an area off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Readers…
Gov’t must explain this discrepancy in oil revenue
Dear Editor, On June 21, 2026, Kaieteur News quoted ExxonMobil Guyana’s Vice President and Business Services Manager, John Colling, as saying: “Through the end of 2025, there was over US$55B in the cost bank, of which US$51B had been recovered. As I mentioned in my prior talking points, US$4.5B was yet to be recovered by…
GWI’s statement is irresponsible, callous and dangerous – water 630 times safe limit
Upon reading the July 5, 2026 edition of THE 592 GUARDIAN summarizing the Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) 2025 findings on drinking water quality in Regions 4, 7 and 10, I was embarrassed and astounded by the Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) statement reported in the July 3, 2026 Kaieteur News article that “Water quality issues flagged…
Government response to high levels of mercury in Amerindian communities?
Dear Editor, In follow-up to the letter in KN by Immaculata Casimero about high levels of mercury in women at Parabara in South Rupununi ‘our oil wealth should not come at the cost of Indigenous women’s health’, 6th July, 2026; the medical report on Chinese Landing from August 2023 should be remembered. During the government’s ‘fact-finding’ mission to…
What interventions have been made by gov’t in Chinese Landing over high mercury levels?
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…
Mr President publish the capital and operating costs of your farm
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…