In March 2025, the remains of two Indigenous women – Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran – who were murdered in 2022 by Jeremy Skibicki, a serial killer, were found after a search of a landfill in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Their murders had gone undetected for months until a man looking for scrap metal…
Dear Editor, On 27 July, I called on the government (President Ali, Prime Minister Phillips, MPW Edghill) to immediately requisition the Normand Installer, a heavy-lift vessel at Chaguaramas, Trinidad on 25 July, and heading for installation of mooring anchors and SURF for the FPSO ‘One Guyana’, on contract to SBM Offshore. I called on the government to…
Dear Editor, The head of the French Navy diving team at the wreck of the MV Barima stated that the wreck site was swept by strong current and being covered in silt. So it was simply too dangerous to try to enter the wreck when the divers could hardly see an arm’s length in front…
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana and devastates it. … It would be an assault on the grief of those who try to cope with their loss for the…
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Could the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MSRC) publish the timeline for the rescue effort for the sinking MV Barima ferry? This MSRC Centre is coordinated through MARAD and the…
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana and devastates it. … It would be an assault on the grief of those who try to cope with their loss for the…
The Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must become Oil-minded Column 194 – The Resource Curse Begins on a Farm (Part 2) In Column 193, I argued that the controversy surrounding President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek is not fundamentally about agriculture. It is about governance in an oil-producing state. It…
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Guyana acceded to the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) on 10 December 1997, and SOLAS became effective in Guyana on 10 March 1998. So presumably…
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,…
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…
