Policy Forum Guyana: TREATMENT OF CITIZENS PETITION – A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
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Speaker must allow all the clauses of MP Patterson’s Motion
The Report produced for USAID on Democracy, human rights and governance assessment: Guyana (2021) makes the following observation in several places: ‘The constitution mandates a high degree of cabinet involvement in executive decision-making while the National Assembly serves as check on the executive branch. Consequentially, the executive branch of government is both protected and isolated…
Canadian Sanctity of Contract case offers hope for Guyana: Part 4
Introduction Having established in the previous parts the considerable assistance that Guyana can draw from the Churchill Falls case in pursuing renegotiation of the 2016 Agreement, this part examines the specific mechanisms available under the 2016 Agreement that allow Guyana to achieve that end. Additionally, I argue that ExxonMobil’s recent categorical refusal to consider any…
Hiding the Terms of Reference for Uaru scoping will only increase suspicion that EPA is exempting vital environmental impacts
I attended the Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) public scoping presentation on the Uaru project 5.00-7.15 pm on Monday May 23, 2022, at the Umana Yana, Georgetown, Guyana. The only positive things I can say are that the presentation by EEPGL’s new man, Anthony Johnson, was clear, readable and concise, and the presenters…
Court decision in Glenn Lall’s court challenge to tax provisions in 2016 Petroleum Agreement
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 103 – March 3, 2023 Introduction On 22 February 2023, the Guyana High Court handed down its decision in the action brought by newspaper publisher and crusader Glenn Lall. The action was filed on 22 January 2022 naming the Attorney General as the…
Govt. must be part of cost negotiations for oil developments
In order for Guyana to get as much value as reasonably possible from the extraction of its petroleum resource, the Government must be part of negotiations of costs for the development of its oil fields. This is the urge of the Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN). The pressure group, formed to ensure good governance…
Entrenched Poverty in Guyana due to Poor Leadership
Alleviating and reducing poverty is the touchstone to determining governance and by far the most important criteria by which our political leaders must be judged from Guyana’s Independence to now. From poverty in our hinterlands to poverty in our urbanized ghettos to places which by their names underline poverty, such as Plastic City nestled on…
Appeal against the Non-Destructive Testers Limited (Guyana) Inc. Environmental Impacts Screening Report
Appeal against the Non-Destructive Testers Limited (Guyana) Inc. Environmental Impacts Screening Report – – Storage of Sealed Radioactive Sources,to be located at Lots 1 and 2, Thuiste Te Coverden, East Bank Demerara Guyana By Penelope Howell https://www.oggn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/epa-penelope-howell-20220222.pdf
The Amerindian Act is quite clear about whose responsibilities it is to manage titled Amerindian Village Lands
I recommend the article written by Ann Usher on ‘Indigenous groups in Guyana raise alarm over historic issuance of carbon credits by Norwegian-funded certifier’, Development Today, 23 December 2022. Available at: https://development-today.com/archive/dt-2022/dt-9-10—2022/indigenous-groups-in-guyana-raise-alarm-over-historic-issuance-of-carbon-credits-by-norwegian-funded-certifier. Development Today describes itself as ‘a free-standing journal covering Nordic aid, produced with no grants from donors or NGOs. Our journalism is funded by…
Environmental lawyer wants ExxonMobil’s permit revoked
But ExxonMobil’s EIA leaves much to be desired. According to the source document, ExxonMobil has little or no plans in place to deal with any financial eventuality of an oil spill. Exxon claims that the possibility of an oil spill is not very high. However, it said that there is a 10 percent chance that…