It’s commendable that the Guyanese government has taken action to review the development plan from the Payara Project in face of none too subtle pressure from Exxon to essentially rubber stamp the approval. The new government has shown a willingness to not follow the status quo, instead it has taken a notable stance to show…
Dear Editor, The Justice Institute Guyana strongly endorses the views expressed in Monday’s editorial ‘ExxonMobil signing bonus’ and joins Transparency International Guyana, Chris Ram, Anand Goolsarran and members of the public in condemning the secret payment of US$18M from ExxonMobil to the government. See more here
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded -Column 154 Introduction By its very name, the Ministry of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs should defend and advance democracy, promote and ensure transparency, and strengthen and enforce accountability. Regrettably, the Ministry, in pursuit of the party’s agenda, is increasingly a convenient vehicle for political deflection…
In the previous column we explored the possibility of Guyana becoming a petro state overnight. A petro state is one in which most government revenue comes from oil royalties and profit share. The government is then tasked with spending and distributing these funds among competing interests. The last column was sceptical about the Guyanese state’s…
By Stabroek News September 21, 2022 Dear Editor, In a SN article dated 8/15/2022 and captioned, ‘Guyana set to receive 12 lifts of profit oil for 2022 – Ministry’, it is reported ‘…that the expected total production of oil in 2022 is 93.6 million barrels of oil… (from which) …Guyana will get an estimated 12…
This introduction by Isabelle de Caires to a recent Moray House Trust presentation sheds light on how our history hangs over us. She makes the case that now with oil we are again in a wearing sense of deja-vu. https://www.oggn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/the-shadow-of-this-history-hangs-over-us.pdf
The four-column headline, “Delays could risk long-term value of Guyana’s oil” in the state-owned paper is wrong-headed. It reads like the work of a clever PR-person, produced and paid for by the oil company. The fact that it is published in the state-owned paper suggests collusion, and worse, a sellout.The arguments made in the article…
I would like to follow-up on SN November 18, 2021. Mere stating that an audit will be done does not mention if the 2016 Contract terms, Article 23 and Annex C will be renegotiated. There are also a number of unanswered questions that could secure Guyana’s interests. Will Guyana’s property and tax laws related to…
A reader might be misled by the Government’s current enthusiasm to start construction of this small dam (by global standards) in the remote Kuribrong River; SN 01 November ‘Cabinet gives China Railway ‘no objection’ for Amaila hydro project’. The Cabinet appears to have been persuaded by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the Norwegian advisers, Norconsult,…
