Today’s column attempts to draw lessons from global experiences with Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), operating in the oil and natural gas sector. This effort is intended to aid my ongoing examination of Guyana’s impending development of a robust oil and natural gas sector. Today, such SWFs constitute an important subset of SWFs found in the…
The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN), a pressure group formed to advocate for prudent management of Guyana’s oil sector, is urging the President to renegotiate the Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil, using the same alacrity with which he handled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) renovation a week ago. The project…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded This was Published on June 21, 2021 Introduction This column which last appeared on April 17, 2020, is returning for a short series. It will feature the 2020 financial performance of the three companies which signed a petroleum agreement with the Government of Guyana for…
Taxes are fundamental to developing the Western world’s prestigious institutions and first-class infrastructure. In Canada, heart attack surgery is free. In the US, for a few dollars, you can hop on to a NYC bullet train that rockets you down the tracks to Boston. These services wouldn’t be affordable without the taxes paid by major…
Further to the various public pronouncements about the gas to energy (GtE) pursuant to the Environment Permit (EP) granted to EEPGL, on behalf of the Stabroek Block Partners, and also pursuant to the publications on the gas to power published by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s website inter alia, I decided to do…
Professor Clive Thomas stimulated much discussion last week when he proposed the idea of a US$5000 per year cash transfer to Guyanese families. The fact that the proposal is open ended stimulated a lot of heated discussions on social media. Several claims were made: these payments will stimulate the money supply and therefore engender inflation;…
By Tarron Khemraj On September 10, 2023 On August 19, the Stabroek News reported that the government is willing to make necessary interventions in the foreign exchange (FX) market in order to enable the smooth access to hard currencies. In the same news report, Vice President Jagdeo noted that there is ample foreign exchange if one considers the…
